Dred Scott Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation

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  Holes Book Unit | A Louis Sachar Novel

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  This book unit (Holes by Lousi Sachar) provides reading comprehension questions, vocabulary work and discussion questions in which students will be tasked with writing their answers.

  There are 22 pages and split into groups of chapters for ease of assignment/use:

  • Chapters 1-5
  • Chapters 6-10
  • Chapters 11-16
  • Chapters 17-22
  • Chapters 23-28
  • Chapters 29-33
  • Chapters 34-39
  • Chapters 40-45
  • Chapters 46-50

  Also included: Extended activity ideas and answer keys

  About the book:
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  Thurgood Marshall Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation

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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 Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall (son of a slave) was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1967–91), the first African American member of the Supreme Court. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools.

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  ✏️What is in this resource? 

  • Student instructions for using biographical notebooking, project pages
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  – A page for students to give details about the bird’s physical description, habitat, diet, life span and reproduction
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