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Boston Massacre
(medium difficulty)
From: Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
Grade Level: (MS), (HS), (College)
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1 Class Period or Less
Length of Reading: Paragraphs
Our Summary of
Boston Massacre
Students view 2 primary source images of the Boston Massacre. They read 2 short primary source descriptions of the Boston Massacre. And they answer questions in 2 excellent graphic organizers, which have important questions about perspective and reliability.
This lesson is available translated into Spanish as well.
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Grade Level: (MS), (HS), (College)
- We put these in parentheses because there is no specified age group for the activity.
- However, we think it would be excellent for middle school (MS), high school (HS), and college students
Remote Ready: With Modifications
- Links to the reading assignments can easily be emailed or posted for students.
- Paraphrase questions into your LMS so you can grade student’s written answers online rather than in an email or on a worksheet. Or if a graphic organizer is amazingly well done, you could have your students take a picture of their completed work and email it to you.
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