Read Kansas! Middle School Lessons
The 43 lessons are designed for 7th and 8th graders. The standards addressed in these lessons are primarily from 7th grade Kansas social studies indicators and appropriate reading and writing indicators. The on-line version of each lesson includes the conversion to Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for reading and writing. These lessons were written to supplement The Kansas Journey textbook. They can stand-alone, be used in conjunction with U. S. history standards, or be used for review for assessment tests.
M-1 Know Your Rights
M-3 Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice
M-4 Local Government: Caring for Your Community
M-5 Nomadic and Sedentary Tribes in Kansas
M-6 The Price of Exploring Kansas
M-7 Indian Removal to the Great American Desert
M-8 Impact of Indian Removal Act
M-9 Frontier Forts
M-10 Popular Sovereignty Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act
M-11 Dispute over Slavery in Kansas Territory
M-12 Danger on the Underground Railroad
M-13 All Eyes on Kansas Territory
M-15 The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention: The Issue of Suffrage
M-16 The Civil War Comes to Kansas: Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence
M-17 The Civil War Comes to Kansas: The Battle of Mine Creek
M-18 "War for the Union and for Freedom!": Recruitment of Civil War Volunteer Regiments
M-19 The Depletion of the Buffalo
M-20 Cowboys, Cattle Drives, and Kansas
M-21 Tracing Migration Patterns
M-23 Building Kansas
M-24 Mexican Migration to Kansas
M-25 The Hmong Migration
M-26 Hardships on the Kansas Prairie
M-27 Votes for Women!
M-28 Populism and Governor Lewelling
M-29 Progressive Movement in Kansas
M-30 Meet the Reformers
M-31 Was the Dust Bowl Good for Kansas?
M-32 Airplane Manufacturing in Kansas
M-33 Notable Kansans—The Rest of the Story
M-35 How World War II Changed Kansas
M-36 Separate and Unequal
M-37 Big Dam Foolishness
M-38 Gordon Parks: First Survival, Then Success
M-39 Rural Depopulation
M-40 Who was John Brown?
M-41 The Great American Desert
M-42 Social Exploration in Kansas
M-43 A Noble Bargain
