History Writing Toolkit

A comprehensive four-week entrepreneurship timeline guiding Grade 7-9 students through ideation, production, marketing, and post-market financial reflection.

A comprehensive pre-reading geopolitical and cultural investigation preparing middle school students for *A Long Walk to Water* by Linda Sue Park, examining Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya across history, culture, and water access.

A 2-page scaffolded worksheet featuring key vocabulary with Spanish cognates, a comprehensive reading on the 5 North American cultural regions (Arctic, Northwest Coast, Great Plains, Southwest, Eastern Woodlands), regional prediction tasks, an extension question, and an exit ticket.

A weekly unit sequence exploring the physical geography of Africa, the trans-Saharan gold-salt trade, and the major technological and cultural innovations of ancient Sumer. Tailored with high-support, high-rigor scaffolds designed for SPED students.

A social studies lesson and bulletin board project celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through personal storytelling, cultural research, and collaborative display. Students explore diverse Hispanic cultures and create personalized display pennants reflecting roots, traditions, or inspiring changemakers.

A print-ready world geography worksheet featuring a detailed world map with numbered callouts, a continent word bank, and identification spaces for students to label all seven continents.

An introductory civics sequence exploring why societies establish rules, different forms of democracy, the key functions and legitimacy of governments, and how government structures shape our daily lives.

An accessible history lesson exploring why we study the past, archeological evidence, and historical sources. Tailored for special education students with visual anchors, structured sentence frames, and clear vocabulary supports.

A 2-page highly supported writing reference guide for 6th and 7th grade historians. Includes fill-in sentence frames, transition word banks, an accessible checklist, and an annotated color-coded exemplar paragraph.

A 5-day history and English Language Arts sequence exploring the accelerating events and intellectual currents that led to the American Revolution. Students scaffold their summative assessment—an open letter from a Second Continental Congress delegate—by documenting crown abuses, analyzing Enlightenment concepts, and drafting arguments daily.

A 2-page standard reference guide for 6th and 7th grade history writing, breaking down the 6-step A-N-E-Z-Z-C paragraph formula, followed by a self-editing checklist and color-coded model paragraph.

A comprehensive multi-lesson cultural and linguistic unit exploring Hawaiian values, rich mythology, traditional wayfinding, and the historic voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa. Students connect deep values to linguistic foundations, legendary histories, and scientific wayfinding.