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Forms of Government: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship & More: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Forms of Government: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship & More Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Forms of Government: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship & More - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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!

Tips:
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.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Forms of Government: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship & More - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
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 Forms of Government: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship & More - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is Government: Reading Informational Text
Limited & Unlimited Powers: Classifying Information GO5
Forms of Government Prefixes and Suffixes: Vocabulary
Forms of Democracy: Reading Informational Text
Athenian & U. S. Democracy: Compare & Contrast
Forms of Monarchy: Compare & Contrast
Protecting Citizens Rights: Summarizing Information
Monarchs and Peasants: Primary Source Analysis
Democratic Revolution: Cause & Effect
Government Characteristics: Graphic Organizer G
Dictatorship: Inference G
Dictator Quotations: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Forms of Oligarchy: Main Idea
Government on the Bus: Applying Concepts
Voter Responsibility: Point of View
More Forms of Government!: Classifying Information
Mapping Democracy: Map Activity
Systems of Government: Reading Informational Text G
Name that Government!: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)