History and Writing

Today we spent a lot of time working on creating a Writing Lesson using history content. I was excited about this because one of my personal goals this year was to include more writing along with my U.S. History instruction. Today's activity was challenging because even though we all teach the same standards we teach at different paces, so it was hard to coordinate a common timing that we would be teaching the same writing strategy, and history content at the same time. I think that we found a common ground and created a fun lesson to use as a post assessment for the European Explorers Unit.