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Introduces core content while promoting: visual literacy classroom discussion

Introduces core content while promoting: visual literacy classroom discussion small group interaction individual student research projects. Every lesson includes content-rich: visual and textual source documents background information analysis questions assessment options.

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Introduces core content while promoting: visual literacy classroom discussion

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  1. Introduces core content while promoting: • visual literacy • classroom discussion • small group interaction • individual student research projects

  2. Every lesson includes content-rich: • visual and textual source documents • background information • analysis questions • assessment options

  3. Generates spirited yet carefully ordered classroom interactions using: • editorial cartoons • photos • paintings • poster art • written documents

  4. Begin with History Unfolding to engage students in class-wide discussionsabout fascinating historic images and illustrations and build their visual literacy skills.

  5. History Unfolding and Debating the Documents providethe to empower students to zero in on telling details of visual primary sources.

  6. Debating the Documents adds short textual passages to more visual primary sources. • Students: • read short background accounts • assess a timeline of events • debate the merits of different primary sources

  7. The DBQ Writing Program guides students to write a persuasive response to document based questions. • Students learn: • how to analyze questions • craft thesis statements • write supporting paragraphs • conclude in a way that ties it all together.

  8. The Historian’s Apprentice adds secondary sources to deepen student historical understanding by doing what historians actually do: • sourcing • weighing evidence • comparing documents • forming conclusions

  9. The Historian’s Apprentice guides students to: • detect multiple meaningsembedded in sources • take into account varying interpretationsby other historians • avoid the trap of present-mindedness

  10. The Historian’s Apprentice guides students to: • develop empathy with people vastly different from them • use their imaginations to clarify complex realities • reach cautious, qualifiedconclusions • prepare to defendconclusions with vigor

  11. The Historian’s Apprentice series introduces students to a more nuancedand sophisticated view of history. Students are exposed to the complexprocesses by which historians practice their craft in a scaffolded,manageable way.

  12. The MindSparks U.S. History Program The MindSparks World History Program

  13. The MindSparks U.S. and World History Programs are a great value because: Site license provides every teacher at your school with perpetual accessto dozens of engaging high-quality history lessons and strategies. Unparalleled variety of effective lessons.

  14. Programs are a great value because: Retail price for the combined individual titles in the programs without site license is thousand of dollars more than the programs. Unlimited school wide access makes the savings and value even greater!

  15. The MindSparks U.S. History Program includes 99 outstanding lessons from • History Unfolding • Debating the Documents • Historian’s Apprentice • plus the History Unfolding DBQ Writing Program

  16. The MindSparks U.S. History Program covers: • Colonial America 15 titles • The Early Republic 17 titles • Divided Nation 15 titles • Gilded Age 22 titles • War & Reform 30 titles • Modern America 17 titles

  17. The MindSparks World History Program includes 74 outstanding lessons from • History Unfolding • Debating the Documents • Historian’s Apprentice • Including the History Unfolding DBQ Writing Program

  18. The MindSparks World History Program covers: • Foundations (8000 BCE–600 CE) 14 titles • Civilizations Interacting (600–1450) 16 titles • The First Global Age (1450–1750) 9 titles • The Age of Revolution& Empire (1750–1914) 21 titles • A Global Community& Its Perils (1914–present) 17 titles

  19. The MindSparks Programs bring together four complimentaryproduct lines to maximize your effectiveness as an educator. Our sequentialprocess builds key student skills while teaching core historic content. This scaffoldingguides students’ to a deeper understanding and retention of the nuances of history.

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