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Westward Expansion: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Westward Expansion Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
The Louisiana Purchase...: Reading Informational Text
The Corps of Discovery: Comparison of Primary Sources
Full Steam Ahead: Primary Source Analysis
The Indian Removal Act: Cause & Effect G
Manifest Destiny: Reading Informational Text
American Progress: Primary Source Analysis
Expansion Quotations: Comparison of Primary Sources
The Oregon Trail: Research & Writing G
Oregon Boundary Dispute: Reading Informational Text
Mapping Westward Expansion: Summative Graphic Organizer G
Slavery Extends Westward: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Texas: The 28th State: Reading Information Text
Acquisition of Mexican Land: Map Activity
California Gold Rush: Reading Informational Text
Chinese in the West: Comparison of Primary Sources
Pacific Railroad Act of 1882: Reading Informational Text
The Homestead Act: Reading Informational Text
Chinese Exclusion Act: Point of View
Westward Expansion: Influential People G
Words of Expansion: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)