This is a guest post from Sara Ziemnik, a World History and AP United States History teacher at Rocky River High School in Ohio and the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Institute National History Teacher of the Year. September 11, 2002. If you were teaching that day, you might remember feeling as I did. What do I…
Primary sources are the perfect avenue to help explore and investigate the events of January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol as well as those that preceded it and those that followed it. Below we have compiled numerous resources to assist in deepening understanding of our past and present in the hopes that we can…
Activity overview Close reading is an opportunity to read and reread thoughtfully and with purpose. By breaking down the analysis of texts and other primary sources into distinct chunks, you can increase rigor and help students more easily climb the staircase of complexity required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In this primary source…