The Main Idea: Boston Tea Party
The purpose of teaching the identification of the main idea is to see if students can discriminate the important information from the less important details in the text. It is important to have the ability to identify essentials ideas and information.
Another purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the correlation between a historical event and the timeline.
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The Words We Live By
To teach students strategies for analyzing and writing a mission statement so that they can better understand purpose, audience, and direction in practical settings and set a mission statement for themselves.
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Compare and Contrast with the Battle of Gettysburg
The purpose of this lesson is to compare and contrast two view points of a text so that students understand that view point may affect information portrayed in writing.
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First-Person View, the Holocaust, and Japanese Internment Camps
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the necessary strategies to compare two topics and form an opinion supported by facts so that they can clearly express their ideas.
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Opinion: 911 Attacks and the Patriot Act
The purpose of this lesson is to assess students’ ability to synthesize information and present an opinion with valid reasoning and support so that students develop clear thinking patterns and expression of ideas.