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Homefront America in WW II
A Document Based Question by Peter Pappas
This lesson improves content reading comprehension with an engaging array of source documents – including journals, maps, photos, posters, cartoons, historic data and artifacts. It is framed around essential questions that link the past and present and invite students to reflect on parallel developments in contemporary America. This lesson includes:
  • Introduction - sets the historic context, poses the investigative question and strategies
  • Documents – a dozen full color primary documents
  • Stop / Think Questions – focus students on the task
  • Graphic organizers –  provide differentiated activities based on research in reading and learning strategies. Help students master strategies for effective reading. 

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More Content Reading Strategies

  • Activate prior knowledge-what do I already know?
  • Set a purpose- goal, what questions do need to answer? What do I want to learn?
  • Review and clarify vocabulary
  • Organize ideas & information to fit task
  • Use questions to filter & clarify
  • Use imagination to make predictions & draw inferences
  • Improve reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and content mastery.
Confirm predictions, clarify main ideas, summarize, restate, and make comparisons and connections

 

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 What did Europeans see when they looked at the New World and the Native Americans?   A Document Based Activity by Peter Pappas examines European views of Native American and the New World in the Age of Exploration.  

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