"Marginalized Groups", Civic Literacy Essay Week 20,

NYS US History 11 Civic Literacy Essay Week 20, "Marginalized Groups"

This NYS US History 11 Civic Literacy Essay Week 20, "Marginalized Groups" is a "Civic Literacy" essay modeled on the New Regents examinations in New York State. It is for students who have completed 20 weeks of the eleventh grade Regents US History and Government course.

This essay requires knowledge of these objectives from the New York State Social Studies Frameworks 11.1 through 11.4.

My strategy is to train students to write these once each ten weeks. I select documents from topics we have covered by that point in the year. This essay is written after 20 weeks of 11th grade US History and Government (Frameworks, NY State). The issue is marginalized groups: slaves, Native Americans, women, indentured servants.

The documents included in NYS US History 11 Civic Literacy Essay Week 20, "Marginalized Groups" are:

1. Indenture agreement, 1742

2. Letter Discussing Female Spy, American Revolution, n.d., from the NYS Archives

3. Excerpt from Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, 1853

4. Labor Agreement for Truss B. Hall, 28 August 1865

5. Excerpt from the Dawes Act (1887)

6. Comments by Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, 1865

   This NYS US History 11 Civic Literacy Essay Week 20, "Marginalized Groups" product includes the following:

   1. Student version of the essay prompt in PDF ("Civic Literacy Essay week 20.pdf") and a teacher edition with the framework references ("Civic Literacy Essay week 20 Teacher").

   2. The New York State grading rubric for Regents US History and Government

   3. Five (5) distance learning review activities for the content.

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