Teaching the Panama Canal in Grade 11 US History
Eleventh grade US History often hits a turning point when students move away from domestic territorial expansion and begin to analyze the United States as a global power. By the time your students reach the study of the twentieth century, they are frequently asking... read more
Mastering Textual Evidence and Literary Ideas for High School
This lesson does not try to teach students how to summarize a plot or find the basic theme of a story. Instead, it assumes your eleventh graders can handle those fundamentals and are ready to do the heavy lifting of literary critique. Mastering Textual Evidence and... read more
Analyzing Contemporary American Social Problems and Policy
I once had a student look at a worksheet regarding modern American inequality and sigh. He told me that these situations were just the way the world worked and that there was no way to change them. That is the hurdle we face when teaching eleventh-grade US History.... read more