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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Literacy in Social studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)" hosted by Jan Clinard.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
   By exploring myths and truths surrounding Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, students think critically about commonly believed stories regarding this famous speech from the Civil War era.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
   Students explore the year they were born through interviews and research, and then weave the details into a newspaper or booklet, written from another person's point of view.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 2
   Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
   After discussing a statement made by Thurgood Marshall, students consider each piece of the comment and create a K-W-L chart to begin an investigation with other resources.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Tracking Argumentation across the Disciplines
   This Web seminar will examine the nature of argumentation across academic disciplines (especially social studies) and suggest questioning practices that scaffold analyzing argumentation in complex informational texts.