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Welcome to Casey’s Class!
I design middle & high school world history resources built for real classrooms, real pacing, and real students.
In this store, you’ll find lessons that:
• Ask students to analyze, rank, debate, create, and justify with evidence
• Combine structure with creative thinking rather than worksheets alone
• Work as full lessons, extensions, or meaningful end-of-unit tasks
• Are designed to be taught without overhauling your schedule or prep time
I’ve been teaching for over 30 years across social studies, language arts, and upper elementary classrooms. The resources here are ones I’ve used, revised, and returned to year after year with my own students.
My goal is simple: clear directions, purposeful student work, and lessons that feel worth the time you spend teaching them.
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Enlightenment Philosophers | School Scenarios, Debates, Readings & Exit Tickets
Students debate Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, and five more Enlightenment philosophers through school-based scenarios they immediately recognize. Should one person hold all the power to keep order? Should the majority always get what they want? Should students be allowed to publicly criticize school rules? Students take a position, defend it, and then read about the philosopher arguing the same question during the Enlightenment. This discussion-driven resource follows a repeatable structure students
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Rise and Spread of Islam Worksheets | Middle East Reading & Guided Notes
Guide students through the complexities of early Islamic history with this print-and-digital activity packet. These are not just "busy work" worksheets; they are structured guided notes paired with high-interest readings that cover Geography, the Migration to Yathrib, and the Growth of Trade Networks. Each section includes comprehension checks and map analysis to ensure students are actually processing the history of the Middle East. With linked introductory videos and ready-to-use exit tic
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Decline of Feudalism & Black Death | Medieval Europe Worksheets Print & Digital
I built this 4-day unit because I wanted my students to see that the end of feudalism wasn't just a date in a textbook—it was a series of massive shifts in power, economics, and health that changed the course of history. This packet helps you guide your class through those transitions with clear, evidence-based lessons that work for a wide range of middle and high school learners. Your students will use specific historical evidence to track how Europe’s old order transformed. They’ll connect the
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Byzantine Empire Lessons | Reading, Worksheets, Exit Tickets | PDFs & Slides
This four-day lesson sequence guides students through the key ideas that defined the Byzantine Empire, with a focus on Constantinople, Emperor Justinian I, and the growing divide between Eastern and Western Christianity. Students work through short readings, guided notes, maps, and exit tickets that emphasize explanation, comparison, and evidence-based thinking rather than memorization. The resource includes both print and digital formats, making it easy to use for whole-class instruction, sm
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Also included in: Crusades, Byzantine Empire, Catholic Church, and Great Schism Bundle
Invention Advertising Project | Persuasive Writing & Sales Pitch | History
Students invent a product people wish existed, design a persuasive advertisement, and deliver a one-minute sales pitch that makes their classmates want to buy it. The ideas can be ridiculous. The thinking has to be real. This fits naturally into units on Chinese inventions, the Renaissance, or the Islamic Golden Age, and runs just as well as a stand-alone persuasive writing activity. In 2–3 class periods, small groups turn a simple everyday annoyance into a full product pitch. Planning pag
6th - 10th
Other (ELA), Social Studies, Speaking & Listening
Five Pillars of Islam Lesson | Mosque Practices Worksheet (PDF & Google Slides)
Help students understand how the Five Pillars of Islam shape daily life by connecting core beliefs to what happens inside a mosque. In this focused worksheet lesson, students use short videos and a clear, student-friendly reading to learn how Muslims prepare for prayer, what takes place during worship, and what each pillar asks believers to do. Students record key facts, identify essential details, and explain why these practices guide routines, values, and community life across the Muslim worl
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Decline of Feudalism CER Analysis & Assessment Worksheets | PDF & Google Slides™
These ready-to-grade Decline of Feudalism analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, independe
6th - 8th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
This bundle provides ready-to-grade medieval history analysis worksheets designed for assessment, review, and evidence-based historical thinking. Each lesson includes tasks that allow students to demonstrate understanding through written analysis, comparison, evaluation, and historical reasoning. These worksheets function as formative or summative assessments and remain simple to assign and grade. The consistent format helps students focus on content and reasoning rather than learning new dire
7th - 10th
World History
Roman Empire CER Analysis & Assessment Worksheets | PDF & Google Slides™
These ready-to-grade Roman Empire analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, independent pract
6th - 8th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
Medieval Towns CER Analysis & Assessment Worksheets | PDF & Google Slides™
These ready-to-grade Life in Medieval Towns analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, indepen
6th - 8th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
Development of Feudalism CER Analysis & Assessments | PDF & Google Slides
These ready-to-grade Rise of Feudalism analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, independent
7th - 10th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
Catholic Church CER Analysis & Assessment Worksheets | PDF & Google Slides™
These ready-to-grade Roman Catholic Church analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, independ
6th - 10th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
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About the store
Experience
Welcome to Casey’s Class!
I design middle & high school world history resources built for real classrooms, real pacing, and real students.
In this store, you’ll find lessons that:
• Ask students to analyze, rank, debate, create, and justify with evidence
• Combine structure with creative thinking rather than worksheets alone
• Work as full lessons, extensions, or meaningful end-of-unit tasks
• Are designed to be taught without overhauling your schedule or prep time
I’ve been teaching for over 30 years across social studies, language arts, and upper elementary classrooms. The resources here are ones I’ve used, revised, and returned to year after year with my own students.
My goal is simple: clear directions, purposeful student work, and lessons that feel worth the time you spend teaching them.
Teaching style
I believe history makes the most sense when students can see it, hear it, taste it, move through it, and argue about it. I intentionally enrich lessons with primary voices, role-play, food samples, music, movement, games, and reenactments, not as extras, but as tools for understanding. These experiences help students of all abilities access complex ideas and remember them long after the unit ends.
Yes, that’s me in the plague doctor costume. Costumes aren’t required, but curiosity is. My classroom is built around engagement, participation, and the belief that learning should feel active and human.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My students are my most honest reviewers, and their feedback shapes everything I create. I was honored to receive my site’s Teacher of the Year award some years ago, but what matters most to me are the handwritten notes, the hallway visits, and the “do you remember when…” conversations that follow students long after they leave my room.
My own education history
BS in Psychology, CSULB
MS in Education/Reading, CSUF
Multiple-Subject Credential
Single-Subject Credential, Social Sciences
Additional biographical information
Outside the classroom, I’m a mom of two grown kids, married to my high school sweetheart, and happiest when I’m traveling or reading. I hope these resources support your teaching and give your students something worth remembering.
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