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This PDF format product contains a review set of questions for the Florida Civics EOC Exam. It contains a set of 90 questions, 2 for each day of a 45 day quarter. (With extra questions to be used as you see fit.) The review calendar is developed with questions reviewed from the most frequently tested items. (The frequency was determined by analyzing the state provided Content Focus using the last 3 tested years data.) As a Civics teacher, I use these questions to provide review for the EOC a

A brief summary of the major Supreme Court cases (Marbury v. Madison, Tinker v. Des Moines, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, Dred Scott, Brown v. Board of Education, Plessy v. Ferguson, Miranda v. Arizona, In re Gault, US v. Nixon, Gideon v. Wainwright, Schenck v. U.S.) is included as half-page texts. A couple of worksheets for review are also included. They can be used for the students to complete while doing a 'carousel' around the room to read the texts. I have used these text 'hung' around the ro

I start each class period with a two-part bell ringer. The 'left side' is to be completed individually which the students entering answers into their Interactive Notebook and the 'right' side is used as a 'turn and talk' and then as a class discussion. The 'right side' focuses on political cartoons, charts / graphs and higher order types of questions. I have found that using these as spiral reviews, I am able to spend a few minutes in each class to review those standards which may need some 'a

This set includes 40 pdfs to use as bell-ringers at the start of class. I have the students do the 'left side' independently and then discuss the 'right side' with table partner. We then 'go over' the bell ringer. I use set for my 7th graders to reinforce and review those topics that are important in the content. Because the U.S. History content is a 'prerequisite' for the Civics content they will take as 8th graders, there is some emphasis on the 'government' related content to create a fo