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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
My Part of the Story Assessment Ideas
Create a final assessment or project for your students before launching the next part of your course on US history, civics, or literature.
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Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
Students culminate their arc of inquiry into educational justice in Boston by completing a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action.
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Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
Students culminate their arc of inquiry into the meaning of democracy and freedom by completing a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action activities.
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“My Freedom Dream” Capstone Project
Students expand on the learning they have gained in their year-long study of US History to develop and share their own “freedom dream.”
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Contextualizing a Found Poem
Students will apply the lessons they have learned about the intersecting histories of wartime North Africa and the Holocaust as they create an artifact that explains the context of the found poems they wrote in Lesson 3.
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