"Progressive Era No. 2", Regents US History Short Essays

Progressive Era No. 2, Regents US History Short Essays This resource helps students develop historical document analysis skills for the updated New York State Regents US History exam. The short essay tasks promote critical thinking by having students examine primary sources in context, identify relationships between events, analyze bias and reliability, and construct evidence-based arguments. The product contains two sets of stimulus-based short essay questions modeled on the state prototype. Each set includes primary source documents and accompanying prompts. Assigning these throughout the year is an effective way to prepare 12th grade students for the skills tested on Part II of the Regents exam. Teachers can use the sets for individual practice or collaborative analysis during which students give each other feedback. Answer keys with scoring rubrics are provided.