Joel Troge
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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I taught from 2007-2020 in New York City Public Schools, the majority of those years at an International High School in south Brooklyn, where I specialized in integrating language with content instruction--something you should see in all of my products in this store.
I designed curriculum for and taught all social studies courses in high school, including Global Studies/History, U.S. History, Government and Economics. In addition,
I designed resources and taught Regents examination preparation courses for Global History & Geography, U.S. History & Government and English Language Arts.
I designed curriculum and taught elective courses focusing on topics such as food, cooking and documentary films.
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Supreme Court Cases: Teens on the Docket Project
What's the best way to get a teenager interested in learning about the Supreme Court? Put 'em on the docket! This project looks at 10 United States Supreme Court cases that have every teenager's favorite topic: other teenagers. It is a highly motivating topic and gives you the opportunity to have students examine the nuances and purpose of the judicial system. The project culminates in a trifold presentation and I have included the model that you can make and students can follow. I designed
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Criminal Justice - Law, Government, U.S. History
U.S. History Survey - Parts I-IV
NOW WITH FREE ANSWER KEY!!!
This 72-page document includes all four of my best-selling American history surveys. It is designed to help students pass the New York State Regents Exam for U.S. History and Government by helping students focus their studies on the topics and questions that most frequently appear on the exam. It's also a great base resource for students preparing for the APUSH exam. And now you can get all four parts and save some cash!
Each study guide--there are 64 in total he
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
U.S. History Infographic Activity
Looking for something to help teach students how to comprehend and analyze graphs, timelines, political cartoons, posters, art and much more from U.S history? It's all here!
The content focus is on United States history and includes topics like the Civil War, Reconstruction, Women's Issues, The Roaring '20s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, the Progressive Era and the Great Society. It's all on one document, but you could easily print them off as separate, stand alone activities if yo
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Government, Statistics, U.S. History
U.S. History Survey - Part I (Colonial Era to the Civil War)
This is part one of a four-part survey of American history. It is designed to help students pass the New York State Regents Exam for U.S. History and Government by helping students focus their studies on the topics and questions that most frequently appear on the exam.
Each study guide--there are 8 in each part--contains 3 main ideas, 5 key concepts, targeted Regents questions, a short answer question and a suggested essay topic. Simply put, based on past results from students, this works.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
Geography Bee!
72 questions at three different levels covering geographic terms, U.S. and world geography! What a fun way to review for exams! Or, what a fun way to spend a "rainy day" in the classroom! You'll love it because the students will love it!
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Geography, U.S. History, World History
5 Research Paper Tips
How do you get students to take quality notes from their sources? (A: This product!)
How do you get students to take their notes and turn them into whole paragraphs? (A: This product!)
Is there an efficient way for students to use better transitional phrases in their writing? (A: This product!)
Will there ever be an easier way to explain the difference between evidence and analysis? (A: No, as long as you get this product!)
Where can I get a simple but comprehensive checklist for my
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Informational Text, Social Studies, Writing
"That's My Job" Project
This is a unit on career readiness and labor economics designed for a 12th grade English language learning classroom that can be used for many other different types of classrooms and grades.
It is a step-by-step guide that helps students identify their interests, skills and experiences and connect them to opportunities in the labor market. It includes a great manipulative activity and connects them to real resources through guided blog posts. There is also a cumulative project at the end that
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Economics
U.S. History Survey - Part II (Manifest Destiny to the Gilded Age)
This is part two of a four-part survey of American history. It is designed to help students pass the New York State Regents Exam for U.S. History and Government by helping students focus their studies on the topics and questions that most frequently appear on the exam.
Each study guide--there are 8 in each part--contains 3 main ideas, 5 key concepts, targeted Regents questions, a short answer question and a suggested essay topic. Simply put, based on past results from students, this works.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
U.S. History Visual Aids
Here it is--nearly 200 graphics, maps, photographs and political cartoons all in one file! Each visual aid comes with a descriptive title that helps you sort and identify which ones you want to add to your worksheet or quiz.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Applied Math, U.S. History, Visual Arts
Walden Quotation Analysis
This reading activity takes 5 notable quotes from the "Economy" section of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, and gets students to engage with the text by asking them to think critically and make connections to themselves and the world around them.
This was designed for an introductory unit for a 12th grade Economics course, but it can certainly be adopted for a variety of courses and needs. Might be a great anticipatory guide for an advanced reading course.
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Economics , English Language Arts
Bill of Rights Jigsaw Activity
This is an easy-to-implement but collaborative and rigorous activity for a U.S. government, history or introductory law or civics course. In it students focus on 2 amendments and then report on historical and contemporary issues related to those respective amendments. As a result, your students walk away with much more knowledge while saving you some valuable class time.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Criminal Justice - Law, Government, U.S. History
U.S. History Survey - Part IV (The Cold War to the Present)
This is part four of a four-part survey of American history. It is designed to help students pass the New York State Regents Exam for U.S. History and Government by helping students focus their studies on the topics and questions that most frequently appear on the exam.
Each study guide--there are 8 in each part--contains 3 main ideas, 5 key concepts, targeted Regents questions, a short answer question and a suggested essay topic. Simply put, based on past results from students, this works.
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
U.S. History Survey - Part III (The End of the Frontier to World War II)
This is part three of a four-part survey of American history. It is designed to help students pass the New York State Regents Exam for U.S. History and Government by helping students focus their studies on the topics and questions that most frequently appear on the exam.
Each study guide--there are 8 in each part--contains 3 main ideas, 5 key concepts, targeted Regents questions, a short answer question and a suggested essay topic. Simply put, based on past results from students, this works
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
Global History Evaluation Activity - Causes of the French Revolution
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is the French Revolution, but it helps
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), World History
U.S. History Photos/Art/Headlines
This zip file contains nearly 50 memorable photographs, posters and headlines from United States history. They are all taken from newspapers, magazines or moving images and will "show" your students the critical moments and turning points in American history.
Note: Before you buy this, you may want to check out my "U.S. History Visual Aids" product. It includes nearly 200 graphics, maps, photographs and political cartoons all in one file and will save you some $ if you buy it in bulk.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
U.S. History, Visual Arts
Argument Activity-Governments, Society & Health Care
A great resource for any humanities class! This activity explores 9 primary and secondary sources that focus on the issues health care, human rights and the role (or not) of government in the health care market. Great for discussions that get students to think critically about an issue relevant to everyone's lives, as well as help scaffold their way to great argumentative essay writing.
While some of these texts are fairly complex and can be used in many young adult classrooms, I wrote and us
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, Informational Text, Writing-Essays
U.S. History Graphics
This zip file contains over 40 tables, charts and graphs showing real data from United States history. A great source for some collaborative work between the history and the math departments!
Note: Before you buy this, you may want to check out my "U.S. History Visual Aids" product. It includes nearly 200 graphics, maps, photographs and political cartoons all in one file and will save you some $ if you buy it in bulk.
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Applied Math, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
U.S. History DBQ Essay - Government
If you're looking for a fool-proof way to teach students how to approach document-based questions (DBQs) and the DBQ Essay for the New York State Regents exam in U.S. History and Government--this is it.
The guide walks students step-by-step from the first read of the historical context to the concluding sentence of the essay. It not only helps them construct meaningful answers to the questions, but it also helps them choose the appropriate topics and documents to write about in the essay. I
8th - 12th
Government, U.S. History
Global History Evaluation Activity - Peter the "Great"?
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is Peter the Great and his transformati
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), World History
Global History Evaluation Activity - Was Leonardo da Vinci the Greatest Thinker?
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is the great Renaissance thinker Leonardo
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), World History
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About the store
Experience
I taught from 2007-2020 in New York City Public Schools, the majority of those years at an International High School in south Brooklyn, where I specialized in integrating language with content instruction--something you should see in all of my products in this store.
I designed curriculum for and taught all social studies courses in high school, including Global Studies/History, U.S. History, Government and Economics. In addition,
I designed resources and taught Regents examination preparation courses for Global History & Geography, U.S. History & Government and English Language Arts.
I designed curriculum and taught elective courses focusing on topics such as food, cooking and documentary films.
Teaching style
My goal is to design products for teaching and learning that:
1) Engage all types of learning styles in a student-centered classroom
2) Consider the needs of all students, including multilingual English language learners, special education students, and advanced learners
3) Incorporate the educational requirements of the current standards, the Danielson Framework for Teaching and the values of Webb's Depth of Knowledge
4) Inspire critical and analytical thinking through speaking and writing
Awards & shining teacher moments
My own education history
-University of Wisconsin at Madison
-Fordham University
-Hunter College
Additional biographical information
Please reach out if you have any questions or issues with these products--happy to help!
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