US History Activities for English Language Learners

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US History Activities for ELLs (ebook Gr: 7 to A)

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By Richard Di Giacomo
Magnifico Publications
2nd Edition 2007
69 Pages
Grade 7 to Adult

This book is going to fill a need that many teachers have had for a long time. As you probably know, it has been just about impossible to find quality materials to help in sheltered or limited English US History classes. It was written by an experienced teacher with who has faced some of the same difficulties that you have. It is difficult to make history relevant and interesting to students with limited English and little experience with common American cultural and governmental traditions. The activities in this book are a blend of the course content in US History, and the grammar component that is necessary both for comprehension of the subject matter and general English fluency. The lessons in this book have two key components that will make your job a lot easier:
1. Hands-on sheltered classroom activities that take advantage of multiple learning styles and differing language acquisition levels. These are often very active and engaging.
2. Grammar exercises based on the vocabulary of the lesson that reinforce both grammar skills and the content area goals. These exercises will help build stronger readers and writers while reinforcing the main ideas of the course content in US History.

Lesson:	Activity:	Language skills emphasized:	Page:
Lesson 1 Native Americans	Locate the Tribe	capitalization	1
Lesson 2 Age of Exploration	Explorers Game	past tense	2
	Explorers Grammar	proofreading	5
Lesson 3 Colonial Times	Colonies Chart	subject-verb agreement	7
Lesson 4 The American Revolution	“Dear King George…”	present tense/dialog	9
	American Revolution Language Lesson	letter writing	10
Lesson 5 The War of 1812	Facts about The War of 1812	adverbs	11
Lesson 6 Manifest Destiny	American Expansion Bingo	articles	13
Lesson 7 The Gold Rush	49er’s Letter	commonly misspelled words	15
Lesson 8 The Conflict over Slavery	Antebellum Newspaper	pronouns	17
Lesson 9 The Civil War	Civil War Quotations	punctuation	22
Lesson 10 Reconstruction	Reconstruction cartoons	future tense/dialog	24
Lesson 11 The Indian Wars:	Four Corners Activity	forming complete sentences	26
Lesson 12 Industrial Revolution Inventions:	Identify My Drawing	interrogative pronouns and adverbs	28
Lesson 13 The Progressive Era	Children’s Book	writing a book	29
Lesson 14 American Imperialism	Cloze Activity	homonyms	31
Lesson 15 American Imperialism	Taking Colonies	role-playing essay	33
Lesson 16 WWI:	Changing a Part of Speech	changing a part of speech	35
Lesson 17 The Great Depression	Cartoon writing	dialog writing	36
Lesson 18 WWII Battles:	Vocabulary Context Clues	vocabulary context clues	38
Lesson 19 Origins of the Cold War	Group Interview	possessive pronouns	39
Lesson 20 Korean War	Korean War Decisions	adjectives	40
Lesson 21 Civil Rights	Topic Sentences	writing topic sentences	41
Lesson 22 The Space Race	Total Physical Response	summarizing	43
Lesson 23 The Vietnam Conflict	Reflexive Pronouns	reflexive pronouns	44
Lesson 24 1960’s Social Movements:	“Time to lay it on the line!”	prepositions	46
Lesson 25 1960’s Social Movements:	Hippie Day	collective nouns	48

Table of Contents (continued)

Lesson:	Activity:	Language skills emphasized:	Page:
Lesson 26 Watergate	Role-playing Nixon Resignation Speech	speech-writing skills	50
Lesson 27 The Reagan Era:	Mind Mapping Reagan’s Accomplishments	note taking	51
Lesson 28 The First Persian Gulf War	The First Persian Gulf War	irregular verbs	53
Lesson 29 The End of the Cold War	How We Came to the U.S.	proper nouns	55
Lesson 30 George W. Bush and the War on Terror	Graphic Organizer	note taking abbreviations	57
Lesson 31 History of the English Language	20th Century Slang	idioms and slang usage	59

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