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Includes:
1. Emoji Essay Rubric-Any Subject
Student friendly rubric with feedback check boxes to save you time when grading essays! Once you download, you can edit the feedback or criteria to be applicable to any writing assignment.
2. Map Skill Activity-Mayan Empire
Have students engage with a map of Latin America and work on their reading comprehension and map skills. Use colored pencils with this map activity to add an colorful element of fun and make geography easy to remember!
3. Primary Source Analysis-Haitian Revolution
Students will be challenged with this primary source document, Toussaint L'Overture's letter to the French Directory, and analyze the tone, purpose, and main ideas of this text. The formatting and annotation guide makes this primary source accessible and teaches annotation skills.
4. Group Activity-Industrial Revolution Reforms
This group activity works uses primary and secondary sources to have students collaborate to learn about the various reforms of the Industrial Revolution. This activity is differentiated with readings and tasks for low, medium, and high level readers and promotes student centered learning by asking students to create questions for their peers to answer. While this is a rigorous activity, it is made accessible for all levels of learners through differentiated texts, questions, and sentence starter scaffolds.
Each resource comes with a teacher guide that explains the directions for each activity and ideas on how to integrate this into your classroom.
If you like these activities and want more, check out all my resources! Every New Teach City resource comes with a teachers guide with explanations and tips!
About Me
Hi! I'm Christina Vega, a passionate social studies teacher, who helps teachers save time and stress less by creating engaging, rigorous, and differentiated lessons and activities for the 21st century history classroom.
I have my bachelors degree in Social Studies Education and a masters in Adolescent Special Education. When I'm not teaching, or running my musical theater program, I love hanging out with my dog and husband, traveling, and sipping on craft cocktails.