Devon Burger

This includes several different timelines: two timelines that stretch from 1865-1877 to be printed on 11"x17" paper, and two timelines each from 1865-1870 and 1870-1877 to be printed on 8.5"x11" paper. There are two versions of each timeline because one is more simplified than the other to account for varying reading levels and needs. My students have found these timelines to be really helpful as we've worked through Reconstruction—they each keep a copy in their Social Studies notebook and refe

This resource will help your students with their historical thinking skills—especially sourcing, corroborating, and contextualizing historical documents. The skills are from the Stanford History Education Group's work, and many of the specific questions and sentence starters come from their Historical Thinking Chart. I simply formatted these questions and sentence starters in a way that I thought would be more useful for my students. I use this by printing it double-sided and laminating the p