Ross Zuckerman

This lesson is designed to help students understand the start of the Civil War and the difficult decisions that Lincoln faced and had to make at Ft. Sumter. Students will be asked to analyze the situation unfolding at the time as if they were Lincoln and then will have to utilize Lincoln's inaugural address to come to a determination regarding how Lincoln responded. This should lead students to an indepth analysis of Lincoln's inaugural as well as a detailed and in depth class discussion. I hav

This lesson helps students gain a greater understanding of the impact that the Treaty of Versailles had on Germany. It incorporates various modalities for students to access the content including visuals, document analysis and a political cartoon analysis.This is one that I will use for years to come.

This document compares/contrasts the perspectives of African Americans during the roaring 20's and the beliefs on African Americans striving for equality and the role propaganda has on achieving this. Should you use propaganda to help people see the good or shouldn't you? This is a good resource to get students to closely read and also to really think about how propaganda effects the viewer/reader. It will ask students to closely analyze the excerpts and make a judgement about what the text is s

This lesson examines the interactions between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans and asks students to draw a conclusion regarding whether Thanksgiving should be a day of mourning or celebration. This is a great lesson that brings in higher order thinking for the students and challenges them to reconsider their perspective about thanksgiving by making an argument. This lesson also enables you as the teacher to tract students ability to make an argument and their alignment from claim to eviden

This UNIVERSAL graphic organizer is designed to increase literacy and help students become better readers. It breaks down the reading process so they are forced to see connections between paragraphs, key details, Connections in the reading to ideas covered in the Unit already and/or outside connections as well as questions they may encounter in their reading. This graphic organizer can be applied to any text students encounter.

These Guided Listening Questions help students come to a greater understanding of the economic crisis during the Great Depression and the impact that the Gold Standard played on the Great Depression. The guided listening questions will help students understand podcast by NPR's Planet Money on the gold standard and the consequences of using the gold standard.

This activity is designed to be a project grade, but can be tweaked to work within the confines of classwork and Homework. The purpose of this assignment is to connect the present and the past together, examining how Obama approached the Great Recession and comparing it to FDR's response to the Great Depression. If used as an in-class activity, it is very likely the analysis of the text alone could take up to 3 days. The overall project ends with the students having to compare and contrast the