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Students capitalize correctly geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events. They are asked to decide what their favorite holiday is and to think about how they usually spend this holiday. Students are instructed to write a story describing their favorite holiday and what they do to celebrate that holiday. They are told to include the name of the holiday and the city and state where they spend the holiday.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students map the ideas, people, and beliefs of a period of history. They analyze influences of historical eras. Students use mapping as a prewriting strategy. They use Inspiration to map the key events, ideas, and personalities of a historical period. Students work in small groups and given one historical time period to analyze.
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- 6th - 10th Grade
Students explore different components that most newspapers share. They determine how to find resources using the CHNC web site by keyword searches. They explore linguistic and sociological differences in different time periods.
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- 10th Grade
Students compare and contrast music from a range of historical and cultural contexts, and music created for a variety of purposes (e.g. dance music, religious music) and analyze how images/feelings are expressed in music within a variety of contexts.
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students research historical periods, and write limericks about a person, place, or artifact from that time period.
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- 4th - 5th Grade
Students explore the historical time period of Annie Sullivan's life and then write a historical fiction story about that time.
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- 9th Grade
Students are introduced to a range of historical periods of music (e.g., traditional European: medieval, Renaissance, baroque, classical, Romantic, 20th-century). This introduction involves written descriptions, recorded examples, and discussions.
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- 5th Grade
Students interpret historical maps and create maps of the United States in different historical periods using map elements, such as title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and projection.
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- 8th - 10th Grade
Students create family trees of fictional characters (in the time period of "Beloved") in order to help them evaluate, interpret, and comprehend text as well as gather and analyze data from a variety of sources.
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- 10th - 12th Grade
Students evaluate the reliability of historical sources, develop research questions, and prepare a multi-media report on a historical topic. They view a movie and write questions they have about the event as they are viewing the movie and determine if the movie is a correct portrayal of the event.
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