Michael Thayer

This outline is derived from the NYS Global Regents Essay Rubric, the New Visions resources and best practice essay writing skills in order to earn the best possible results on the Enduring Issues Essay. With the New Global Regents fast approaching, get this resource into your classroom and get your students perfecting the skills to writing a strong Enduring Issues Essay.

Student to Student Discussion Protocol, Worksheets, Teacher Tracker and Rubrics. You can edit this in seconds, add a new purpose question and run another student to student discussion. My class is a discussion-based Global 9 classroom and we use this protocol EVERY day. I can make entire lesson in a matter of minutes - EASIEST activity I've ever prepared for. Simple copy/paste. This protocol comes with specific assigned student roles, descriptions of roles, a rubric for students to self-asse

This learning activity provides historical context of the Magna Carta and facilitates a deeper understanding of the document, its implications and contributions of the Magna Carta to Global History. Can be used as an Intro Activity or a Deeper Learning Activity to provide for foundation for a discussion.

This is an Entire Lesson Plan, with Intro Activity (Do Now), GRASP Activity (role play), Reading, Group Work, and Exit Ticket (Formative Assessment). This lesson plan is set for a 44-45 minute class period - but can be adjusted. Entire Turn Key Lesson Plan to evaluate the influence of the end of WWII on the Start of the Cold War. Allows students to analyze a Culturally Relevant scenario and then connect it to the WWII/Cold War Content through a GRASP activity and group work. Student Engagement

This is a new spin on an old discussion protocol. This Socratic Seminar comes with discussion protocol (with Student-Facing Rubric), a Discussion Tracker for teacher as well as a engagement tools for the Outer Circle during discussion. This resource is sure to increase student engagement in the Socratic Seminar, both inside and outside the discussion circle, while also producing stronger understanding of expectations and criteria. Having used this resource in my class for the past 3 years, stude

This is an EASY outline for your students to practice (and easy to memorize for Exam Day) that meets all criteria to receive a 5 on the essay!

This Exit Ticket provides a clear Exit Ticket Question, clear criteria for high standard of student work, a rubric and checklist for students to self-check their work, as well as a scaffolding (optional) for students who need additional support in writing their exit ticket. Commands a Claim, use of Evidence, use of Analysis, and a Linking/Closing statement to tie it back to claim. Completely modifiable for teacher use.

This one-pager is designed for students to build the necessary skills demanded by the Enduring Issues Essay of the NYS Global Regents exam. Use this with any pack of 5 Documents (from test of self-created) on a regular basis in your classroom to prepare students for the essay. Students will identify key Enduring Issues that the document represents, identify 3 of those documents to match an Enduring Issue they would write about and then be able to describe how the 3 documents demonstrate how the

When you begin teaching Argumentative Writing, you may find that students struggle to support their claim with evidence an analysis. This lesson isolates the skill in order to provide opportunity to support the claim with items that they know. It provides generic evidence to utilize to support personal claims - claims provided to isolate skill further.