Students create a performance that conveys a text’s message, theme, or conflict.
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Relevant or Not?
Help students identify relevant evidence, and give them an opportunity to practice evidence selection with their peers and as a class.
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Shadow Reading
Use this strategy to help students consider, compare, and analyze various perspectives on a complex topic.
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Storyboard
Help students track a story’s main ideas and supporting details by having them illustrate important scenes.
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Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Use this strategy to improve students’ reading skills and help them connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Key Dates in Colonial American Religious History
The letter exchange between George Washington and the Hebrew congregation of Newport was not the only landmark event in the early history of America that dealt with issues of religious freedom and identity. Seixas’ letter and Washington’s subsequent response exist within a timeline of many other events during which the newly formed country faced those issues. Continue reading below for information about some of those events.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Pre-Work
Before your students explore the case study, you may want to try one or more of the following short suggested activities that introduce key themes and help develop a common language for discussions about bullying and ostracism.
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