Ruby's Notes

This worksheet makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. The passage explores a Phillip Randolphs education and major career accomplishments in the labor movement. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

Use this worksheet as a launch to a unit on India, Hinduism, World Religions or Perspective. Students will expand their understanding of perspective and explore its relation to the various interpretations of Hinduism by analyzing an Indian folktale. Comprehension questions can be completed with a partner or independently. Class discussion encouraged.

This worksheet makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. The passage explores James Weldon Johnson' s classical education an major career accomplishments. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the influences that made up the majority of Thomas Fortune's education. As a leading 20th century journalist, orator, and speech writer, Fortune's success was grounded in his passionate commitment to the free press. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the story of Ida B Well's educational journey. As an advocate for anti-lynching laws and other human right's issues, her commitment to justice was fortified by her adolescent experiences. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of her experience today.

Use mapping and inquiry based learning to teach colonialism. This worksheet features a brief excerpt from Howard Zinn's, "A People's History of the United States" to introduce a broad definition of a colony. Students then use inquiry to draw conclusions about list of contemporary countries apart of the British Commonwealth and the United States' Territories. NOTE: Ideally, students will use a world map to assist in understanding the location of each country.