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$3.00Buy Now✏️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 Margaret Brent.Margaret Brent was the first woman in the American colonies to appear before a court of the Common Law to claim land in her own right or to pursue her own interests in court. She was also a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
✏️This notebooking project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular! 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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An informational text to both inform students about the first Thanksgiving as well as assess there reading comprehension.
The text gives students a clear understanding of the history behind the holiday we call ‘Thanksgiving’ as well as how it is a story of struggle, hope and resilience. Students will learn that many people groups (including Native Americans and Europeans) celebrated with harvest festivals for thousands of years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock. They will learn why history records the Pilgrims’ event as the ‘first Thanksgiving’ and what it symbolized for the people. They’ll also learn that Sarah Hale (during the Civil War) petitioned for a national celebration and which president declared it a national holiday and why!
This resource includes:
- -2 pages of informational text (Key ideas: harvest festivals, celebration of success, hope and gratitude / Historical references: Plymouth festival with the pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Sarah Hale (and her petition for a national celebration of Thanksgiving) as well as President Lincoln.)
- -3 pages to assess reading comprehension (short answer and short essay)
- -Answer key
Flesch Reading Ease score: 70.5 (text scale)
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.9
Automated Readability Index: 9.1
