Westward Expansion – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

You are buying the PDF eBook. How to Use the Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activities
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

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• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activities book
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activities
The Louisiana Reading Informational Text
The Corps of Comparison of Primary Sources
Full Steam Primary Source Analysis
The Indian Removal Cause & Effect G
Manifest Reading Informational Text
American Primary Source Analysis
Expansion Comparison of Primary Sources
The Oregon Research & Writing G
Oregon Boundary Reading Informational Text
Mapping Westward Summative Graphic Organizer G
Slavery Extends Problem-Solution-Results GO9
The 28th Reading Information Text
Acquisition of Mexican Map Activity
California Gold Reading Informational Text
Chinese in the Comparison of Primary Sources
Pacific Railroad Act of 1882: Reading Informational Text
The Homestead Reading Informational Text
Chinese Exclusion Point of View
Westward Influential People G
Words of Vocabulary GO10
Common Core State Standards Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, Unknown Binding

First published September 30, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.