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$15.00Add to CartBring history to life and help your students truly master the founding document of the United States! 🦅 Declaration of Independence | Historical Background and Copy Work is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional resource designed to take students beyond simple rote memorization and into deep historical learning.
Whether you are a classroom teacher or a homeschool parent, this all-in-one packet provides the context, the “why,” and the hands-on practice needed for a sophisticated understanding of American history.
📦 What’s Included in This Resource:
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📜 Complete Historical Background: Explore the “Who, What, Where, and Why” of the document. We cover what it was designed to do, the events that led to the revolution, and the fascinating story of how it was physically created.
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🖋️ Profiles of the Signers: Get to know the 56 brave men who risked everything. This section includes names and background information for every single signer of the document.
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⚖️ The 27 Grievances Decoded: My Teaching Library breaks down every single complaint lodged against King George III. Each grievance is listed with its original 1776 language alongside the actual historical context so students understand exactly what was happening in the colonies to trigger each claim.
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📝 Targeted Copy Work & Vocabulary: The document is broken into manageable sections for students to transcribe (copy work). This section specifically prompts students to identify, define, and research unfamiliar words to ensure 100% reading comprehension.
✨ Why This Resource is a Must-Have:
1. It Builds Historical Literacy 📚 By comparing the original text of the grievances with the historical causes, students move from “reading” to “analyzing.” They will understand the Declaration as a legal and political argument, not just a list of complaints.
2. It Enhances Memory Retention 🧠 Copy work is a proven method for internalizing information. As students write out the famous words of the Preamble and the Resolution of Independence, the structure and philosophy of the document become ingrained in their memory.
3. It Tackles the “Hard Words” 🔍 Founding-era English can be intimidating! Our built-in vocabulary research requirement ensures students don’t just skip over “unalienable” or “despotism”—they master them.
4. It’s Ready-to-Use 🏫 No extra research required! Everything a student needs to understand the Declaration of Independence is included in this PDF. It’s perfect for independent study, unit supplements, or a primary source deep-dive.
📋 Product Details:
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Grade Levels: 6th – 12th Grade (Targeted for Middle and High School)
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Subjects: U.S. History, Government, Civics, ELA (Language Arts), Political Science
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Format: High-quality, printable PDF
🚀 Ready to Empower Your Students?
Give your students the tools to understand the foundation of American Liberty. Help them connect the dots between the King’s tyranny and the birth of a new nation.
👉 Add “The Declaration of Independence: Historical Background & Copy Work” to your cart today and start your journey back to 1776!
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$3.00Add to CartRoad to Revolution: 42-page unit teaches students about major events before and during the American revolution. Includes student text, assessments and teacher pages and keys.
Topics covered:
- – Beginnings of revolution
- – The First Continental Congress
- – The Second Continental Congress
- – Basic principles of the Declaration of Independence
- – Major Events
- – Articles of Confederation
- – Constitutional Convention of 1787
- – Creating a Federal Union
Includes student text, assessments, teacher pages and keys.
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A student-centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
Students will use this project-based unit to learn about and report on Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist who was into slavery. Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women’s suffrage.
This notebooking, project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. After completing the written portion of this resource, you can grade it (or) assign students to do an oral and/or audio-visual presentation based on their findings/work.
What is in this resource?
- Student instructions for using biographical notebooking, project pages
- Suggested research questions
- Student notebooking, project pages (includes covers, KWL, reference recording, report writing, and more)
- Teacher pages (instructions, assignment, evaluation)
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This is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: Barton’s 1904 book “A Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work,” recounts the work performed by the Society under her direction.About the Author: Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and Clara did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care.
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Help students get the most of any study on American Westward Expansion and the Pony Express! This resource provide themed pages that students can use to record information from class lessons, textbook reading or from their own research! Inspiring student creativity and productivity are the reasons behind the designing of this product. These pages are ready to use and flexible!
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High School American History 1 – Teacher’s Guide with Keys
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This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
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This resource, Immigration – Ellis Island – US History Informational Text, has SIX parts: The Early Days, 1892-1954 Gateway to the United States, The Immigrant Experience, Why They Came, From WWII to the Present and Ellis Island Name Change Myth.
In each part, students will have one page of informational text and then a page of multiple choice questions plus one essay question to assess understanding / comprehension. Answer Keys provided.
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With this comprehensive, cross-curricular unit study on the Mayflower, your students are going to read informational text to learn about the ship, its voyages, and its passengers (the Pilgrims). Students will also work with vocabulary related to ship navigational instruments, sections of the ship as well as words used in a farewell letter written to the passengers of the Mayflower. Perfect to use when studying the founding of the New World or during November (prior to Thanksgiving).
Students will be asked to…
- – Answer comprehension questions and questions to challenge their thoughts
- – Research and define unknown terms and vocabulary
- – Write a first person narrative
- – Complete hands-on projects
Some of the included items…
- – K-W-L
- – Informational Text: Mayflower before the Pilgrims
- – The Mayflowers Crew (Job titles and duties)
- – Sections of the Mayflower (Rooms/Areas and uses)
- – Names of navigational instruments of the day
- – Farewell letter read to the passengers prior to departure from Pastor John Robinson
- – Mayflower Passenger List
- – Informational Text: Food and Life Aboard the Mayflower
- – Pilgrim Fact Cards
- – Class outdoor activity
- – Answer Keys
After completion, students will have gained invaluable knowledge about life onboard a ship such as the Mayflower as well many of the reasons such a voyage was taken and a bit about life after they arrived into the New World.
I have included a list of books and web links that can be used for additional learning.
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This lapbook has been designed to give students a creative project to create about America’s Independence Day – the 4th of July!
Students are given various lapbooking templates on a variety of topics. They will then research or read books about each, record what they have learned and add to their lapbook. These topics include…
– Pledge of Allegiance
– The American flag and winning independence
– Founding fathers: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others
– American Symbols, the words ‘patriotic’ and ‘freedom’ -
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High School American History 2 – Teacher’s Guide with Keys
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This resource, The Intolerable Acts – U.S. History Notebooking Project, has been designed to aid students in creating a thorough and organized History project. If you want students to do a deeper dive into the ‘Coercive Acts’ passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, this is the resource.
See description below for more details!
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Give your students another way to learn about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim’s journey over to the New World! Perfect addition to your lesson plans if you are beginning a study on the founding of the 13 Colonies or during the month of November, leading up to Thanksgiving.
In this 18 slide PPT presentation, students will learn about…
- The Mayflower before the Pilgrims
- The Pilgrims securing the Mayflower for the journey
- About the ship itself
- Life aboard the Mayflower
- The arrival at Cape Cod
- Did the Mayflower return to England?
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This resource, The Intolerable Acts – US History Informational Text, will inform students of the British Parliament’s reaction to the Boston Tea Party…”5 laws” passed referred to by colonist as the Intolerable Acts:
- The Boston Port Act
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Administration of Justice Act
- The Quartering Act
- The Quebec Act
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This informational article will help students understand one of ‘taxes’ imposed upon the colonies by King George prior to the American Revolution. After reading, students will be questions to assess their comprehension of the material (1 multiple-choice question, 7 short answer questions and 2 short essay questions).
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American History – Part 1 for High School (Student Textbook)
Units:
- America from Exploration through Colonization
- Road to Revolution
- The Constitution and Early National Period
- The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era
- Westward Expansion (1840-1890)
- Industrial America (1865-1925)
- Problems in Industrial America
- Becoming a World Power
- U.S. Foreign Policy (1898-1933)
- The Progressive Era (1890-1917)
- World War 1 in Europe
- The U.S. enters WW1
- Peace after WW1
- Prosperity after WW1
- The Great Depression (1929-1932)
- The New Deal (1933-1940)
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Studies have shown that word search and other word puzzles can help improve memory, focus, vocabulary, word recognition, pattern recognition, and overall mental acuity! With this in mind, why not engage students in some brain exercises using these puzzles? Perfect to use while you are doing a unit on the Pony Express and the westward expansion of the United States.
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American History – Part 2 for High School (Student Textbook)
Units:
- Causes of WW2
- WW2
- Life in America during WW2
- Cold War Conflicts (1945-1960)
- Postwar America (1952-1060)
- The New Frontier (1960-1963)
- The Stormy Sixties
- America in Turmoil (1968-1976)
- America Seeks Answers (1976-1980)
- The Republican Years (1980-1992)
- The Clinton Years (1992-2000)
- The New Millennuim
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Teach students about the Pony Express, a business that lasted just 18 months during the American Westward Expansion (1860-1861). In this cross-curricular resource, students will learn the how, when, where and why behind this mail delivery system which stretched from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. They will also learn about the riders and horses that made it possible, how much it cost to use and how a new ‘telegraph’ system lead to the company’s closure.
This is a true cross-curricular unit as students will learn U.S. History while engaging in Geography (map work), Language Arts (comprehension, writing, dictionary work, research) and Math (word problems) activities. There are 4 passages about the Pony Express which are the foundation for all activities. Answer Keys are provided.
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I’ve created this shape book of Lincoln to be versatile and is perfect for any type of student-created writings about the 16th President of the United States!
(See description below for details)
