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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students deliberate the origins of the Chicago race riots by exploring five documents that...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Prohibition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Soldiers in Philippines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to use close reading skills to read a variety of primary source...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan allows students to investigate why the League of Nations was rejected...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: World War I & 1920s

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate historical events. In this lesson plan students analyze historical evidence as they consider eight document-based questions about the post-war era of...