The Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies (MCSS) produced a series of instructional tools to support access to Document-Based Questions (DBQs) for Multilingual Learners (MLLs).
Published on Tue, 11/07/2023
The English Learner Collaborations project has added new lesson plan examples to the Emerging America website that demonstrate the use of scaffolds and supports for English Learners.
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.
Published on Mon, 01/23/2023
Guest post by Jacqueline LaFrance
January, 2023
Published on Tue, 12/06/2022
This post appeared in edited form in the Daily Hampshire Gazette column Chalk Talk, on November 18, 2022.
Students will practice with posing questions about primary source documents and then analyzing the resources to learn more about life in Colonial Massachusetts. Students will summarize their learning in the final lesson.
What was everyday life like for people who lived near the ocean in Massachusetts 250 years ago?
What can a newspaper tell us about the lives of men, women, and children in 1767 Massachusetts?
Focus skills include:
Students will practice summarizing interpretations of Freedoms of Speech under
the First Amendment.
The English Learner Collaborations project of the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies commissioned the development of lessons to illustrate applying English Language Development (ELD) teacher resources to History and Social Studies content.
By the end of the sequence of lessons linked below, students should be able to explain the principles of non-violent civil disobedience, and will be able to provide examples of non-violent civil disobedience.
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