Activity Guides: Grades 9-12 Learn At Home (NYC)
Worksheets with activities for distance learning - these materials are designed to provide supplementary learning resources; they do not replace learning at school.
Lesson – Global History and Geography: Skills
Objective: Analyze and gather evidence from various texts in order to understand historical context and write a structured historical paragraph. (English Bill of Rights)
Lesson - Civics for All: Rights v. Responsibilities
Objective: Analyze scenarios to better understand your rights and responsibilities and the relationship between them.
Lesson - Parliamentary v. Presidential System
Objective: Compare and Contrast presidential and parliamentary systems of government.
Lesson - Global History and Geography Regents: Part II
Objective: Read and annotate A Vindication of the Rights of Women, The Social Contract, and The Purpose of Government to understand potential audience, bias, point of view, and/or purpose. (John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Lesson - Civics for All: Philosophical Foundations of the U.S. Constitution
Objective: Analyze the intellectual influences on the philosophical ideas expressed in the United States Constitution.
Lesson - US History and Government Regents: Part II Causation
Objective: Read United States Constitution on Slavery and What to the Negro is the Fourth of July? to evaluate cause and effect relationships. (Frederick Douglass)
Lesson - Civics for All: Journey to Political Office - 2 Day
Objective: Analyze texts to understand various paths elected officials from New York City took to reach elected office.
Lesson - Hidden Voices: Eliza Jennings Graham
Objective: Consider how the power of individuals to change rules and laws has been a significant enduring issue through the history of one individual, Eliza Jennings Graham.
Lesson - Civics for All: The United States Census
Objective: Analyze U.S. Census data for an NYC neighborhood and make recommendations to the City Council to help improve the lives of residents.
Lesson - Civics for All: Legal Tests & Private Property
Objective: Review Supreme Court cases to develop a legal test for the question: was the public use sufficient to authorize the taking of property? Apply your legal test to court cases involving questions of private property. (The Fifth Amendment and Eminent Domain; Takings Clause Legal Test; Eminent Domain; Keystone XL pipeline)