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  • Reading CCSS for H/SS 6-8
    • RH.6-8.1 Cite Specific Textual Evidence
    • RH.6-8.2 Determine the Central Idea and Summarize
    • RH.6-8.3 Identify Key Steps in a Process
    • RH.6-8.4 Determine the Meaning of Words and Phrases
    • RH.6-8.5 Determine Text Structure
    • 6-8.6 Identify Author's Point of View and Purpose
    • RH.6-8.7 Integrate Visual Information
    • RH.6-8.8 Distinguish Fact, Opinion, and Reasoned Judgment
    • RH.6-8.9 Analyze Primary vs. Secondary Source
    • RH.6-8.10 Read Grade-Appropriate Texts
  • Writing CCSS for H/SS 6-8
    • WHST.6-8.1 Write Arguments
    • WHST.6-8.2 Write Informative/Explanatory Texts
    • WHST.6-8.4 Write with Development, Organization, and Style
    • WHST.6-8.5 Planning, Revising, Editing, And Rewriting
    • WHST.6-8.6 Produce and Publish Writing With Technology
    • WHST.6-8.7 Conduct Short Research Projects
    • WHST.6-8.8 Gather Relevant Information
    • WHST.6-8.9 Draw Evidence From Informational Texts
    • WHST.6-8.10 Write Routinely
  • Speaking/Listening CCSS for 6-8
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.1 Collaborative Discussions
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.2 Interpret/Analyze Diverse Media
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.3 Delineate Speaker's Argument and Claims
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.4 Present Claims and Findings
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.5 Include Multimedia and Visual Components
    • CCSS.ELA.SL.6-8.6 Adapt Speech to Context and Task
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

1.  Integrating Visual Information 
  • Lesson on Integrating Information from Visual Media with Examples for Practice
  • Lesson on Political Cartoons' Effects on Elections (Kennedy Center)
  • Lesson on Integrating Visual Information Regarding the Declaration of Independence
  • Lessons on Maps, Charts, and Graphs 
  • "Road to Independence" Lesson - Mapping the Routes to Philadephia
  • National Archives Source Analysis Worksheets
  • Library of Congress Source Analysis Tools
  • Analyzing Primary Sources (Truman Library)
  • Analyzing Images (teachinghistory.org)
  • Analyzing Artifacts and Placing Artifacts in Time (Annenberg Learner)
  • Questions for Analyzing Visual Information in Nonfiction Texts
  • Activities for Integrating Visual Information
  • Social Studies Skills Tutor - Analyzing Images and Graphic Data
  • Smithsonian - Strategies for Helping Students Learn to Look at Artwork
  • Strategies for Map, Charts, and Graphs

2.  Integrating Maps
  • Lesson on Mapping National and Geographic Identity (MOMA)
  • Lesson on Analyzing Historical Maps (Learn NC)
  • Lesson with Historical Map of the World (Library of Congress)
  • Lesson on Analyzing a Battlefield Map (National Park Service)
  •  - Includes a Tutorial on Analyzing Maps
  • Lesson on Analyzing Historical Maps (unveilinghistory.org)
  • Learn NC - Integrating Maps with Text
  • Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Maps
  • National Geographic Mapping Resources
  • Making Sense of Maps (History Matters)
  • BrainPop Video on Map Skills
  • Questions for Analyzing Maps
  • Organizer for Analyzing a Map
  • Map Resources

3.  Integrating Photographs, Images, and Artwork
  • Lesson on Migrant Workers Using the Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kennedy Center)

  • Lesson on the Boston Massacre Using Images
  • How to Analyze Photographs (PBS)
  • Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Photographs

4.  Integrating Videos
  • Lesson using the American Experience Documentary The Murder of Emmett Till (Facing History)
  • Lesson using the American Experience Documentary Freedom Riders (Facing History)
  • Lesson using the Documentary Worse Than War (Facing History)
  • Lesson on International Aid to Fragile States Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
  • Lesson on Food Insecurity Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
  • Lesson on the Global Water Crisis Incorporating Video Material (Pulitzer Center)
  • Library of Congress Guide to Analyzing Motion Pictures
  • Analyzing Film (teachinghistory.org)

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