Created by Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking
NYS Common Core Grades 11 & 12:
United States History and Government
Participation in Government and Civics
The purpose of this workshop is to
provide tools for teachers to understand how to better help their students
learn about the law. Featuring primary source documents from the era of John
Locke to contemporary times, these materials include information about text
rendering, collaborative reading, radical revision, process writing, and
metacognitive thinking. Other tips for teachers include different types of
informal writing, creating dialectical response journals, and different
principles of writing.
This
lesson plan meets the following guidelines of New York State’s Common Core
Social Studies Framework (2017):
- Colonial Foundations: 11.1c
- Constitutional Foundations: 11.2c, 11.2d
- Expansion, Nationalism and Sectionalism: 11.3b
- Foundations of American Democracy: 12.G1a, 12.G1b, 12.G1d, 12.G1e
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: 12.G2a, 12.G2b, 12.G2c, 12.G2d, 12.G2e