Teacher Created Assignments
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19th Century United States History
During the Gilded Age unit, I created an escape room activity for my students. Working in groups, they solved puzzles based on the previous day's document based question documents, and opened a series of locks on Google Forms and a physical box to compete with other groups. Some sample resources are linked below:
Original Document Based Question (from AP Central)
Instructions as students entered
Samples of Google Form "locks"
Answer Key to Puzzles
Original Document Based Question (from AP Central)
Instructions as students entered
Samples of Google Form "locks"
Answer Key to Puzzles
Rubric for the Progressive Era Silent Movie Project - see "Student Samples" tab for an example project.
The rubric for an App Smash project I assigned during the Jacksonian Democracy Unit. There are a few examples of completed projects in the "Student Samples" section for this project as well.
In my Accelerated U.S. History class, I use past AP Document Based Questions. Although the class is not an AP course, the students will move into AP United States History for junior year, so we practice these responses to better prepare the students for the AP course. This is an example of the scoring rubric I use, which is aligned with the AP exam rubric for the DBQ.
Primary document bundle analyzing Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy.
Map completion/analysis comparing the United States in 1800 to the United States in 1824 to analyze the growth of the nation.
This assignment requires students to look at the popular/electoral college results of elections from 1820-1828 to observe the growth of democracy in the U.S. and the evolution of Andrew Jackson's support.
Map analysis comparing the United States in 1820 to the United States in 1853 to analyze the growth of the nation and the problems faced during expansion.
This web quest style assignment requires students to compare the Declaration of Independence (1776) to the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) to consider the strategies of the Seneca Falls Convention in arguing for women's rights.
This debate project forces students to take a stance and argue ethical questions regarding the Civil War.
This primary document analysis pushes students out of their comfort zone by having them work to read the Populist Party platform from 1892 and analyze the political viewpoints of the populists.
AP European History
This assignment relates to the Index of Prohibited Works issued by the Catholic Church during the Counter Reformation. Students choose a piece of work that is banned by the church and investigate to determine why the work is prohibited.
This is a sample study guide packet that supplements the chapter readings from the main textbook of the AP European History course. Questions are discussed in class during lecture.
This discussion assignment asks students to consider which Enlightenment thinkers had the greatest impact during the era by creating a list (as a class) of the top 10 and top five philosophers of the era. Students must be able to argue in favor of the thinkers they believe to be the most important.
This open-ended response question accompanies an excerpt from King Louis XVI of France during the French Revolution. It is set up in a similar manner as the PSSA exam essay questions were, as in the past I have tried to mirror my essay questions off of the standardized tests to help students familiarize themselves with the format of those exams.
To review for the AP exam in May, students were assigned a full-year project where they create a review packet for their classmates to review each century covered in the AP European History course.