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Video Viewing Guides: Flexible, ready-to-teach lesson plans and handouts Video introductions Essential questions Background information, including key people, events and vocabulary Warm-up discussion questions Key concepts and quotations Comprehension and critical-thinking questions for assessment Class discussion and short essay questions Extension activity ideas Teacher key Standards-linked content

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading.

Scholars on Line from the Choices Program-- Slavery from the colonial New England point of view

Assignment on American attitudes towards slavery via scholars on line- Quaker, RI, Revolution times, abolitionists Am col society., Focus on New England