Mr Jura's Classroom

This lesson includes: - Access to a Prezi Presentation on Calvinism, the Puritans, Puritan culture, and Anne Hutchinson. - Primary Sources including images and trial transcript excerpts are included and scaffolded (vocabulary footnote option available for source). - Differentiated project as summative assessment with rubric for evidence based writing. - Teacher's guide including some lecture notes, DOK aligned comprehension questions, and procedures.

This bundle includes: - Engaging 14 slide PowerPoint presentation with data (charts), early timeline, and primary source photographs. - Cornell notes Worksheet - Webquest on the Industrial Revolution Enjoy!

This free resource is a CCSS aligned student led webquest worksheet that asks students to read an article on the building of the transcontinental railroad and then answer a 10 question constructed response worksheet based on their investigation. The worksheet employs QR Codes or links to access the reading content.

This close reading unit is designed to be used along with the short story Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. The close read follows a 1st, 2nd, 3rd read format covering multiple critical thinking and literature analysis skills. This unit would be used to reinforce important techniques including: summarizing, text dependent questioning with extended response formatting, analyzing point of view, text structure, theme, and figurative language, and the task of literary analysis. Overall, this

This close reading unit is designed to be used along with the short story Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. The close read follows a 1st, 2nd, 3rd read format covering multiple critical thinking and literature analysis skills. This unit would be used to reinforce important techniques including: summarizing, text dependent questioning with extended response formatting, analyzing point of view, text structure, theme, and figurative language, and the task of literary analysis. Overall, this unit woul

Here is a FREE webquest activity to give students an informational text used to study abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. Students may scan the included QR code or visit the link provided to read the article and then answer a series of CCSS aligned text dependent questions. Hope you enjoy!

QR Code Enabled This activity takes students on a guided virtual tour of Ellis Island and immigration during the industrial period.

Includes: 1 PowerPoint Presentation (Immigration, Ellis Island) (6 Slides) 1 Webquest - Virtual Field Trip (QR Code Enabled) (PDF/WORD)

Short close read of a primary source poem on the issues surrounding child labor. This activity has students read a primary poetic source and answer a series of text dependent questions.

This product contains a well designed 5 question webquest to generate student understanding of key events of Westward Expansion. The QR codes and link included allow students to directly connect to History.com read an article on Westward Expansion and then respond to the 5 webquest questions.

This webquest is QR Code enabled and takes students through a text dependent question worksheet related to the Industrial Revolution. CCSS aligned. Literacy focused.

Here is a QR Code enabled webquest on Child Labor using History.com. Students will be engaged in actively reading the article and answering the series of text dependent questions.

Here is a FREE Mini-Lesson designed to help students closely read and decode standardized testing writing prompts using the TAP method (Task, Audience Purpose). This FREE resource includes: PowerPoint Presentation 2 Sample Prompts (Expository - Guided and Argumentative - Independent) 2 Cold Read Tasks (Guided and Independent) Decode It Graphic Organizer Enjoy and please rate your free purchase!

Free Product Differentiated summative assessment project with tic, tac, toe design. Center square contains required activities and students choose two others to produce by an assigned due date.

Here is a template to get students started with formatting their Cornell style notes.