American Imperialism in Hawaii DBQ Skill Builder

🌺 Getting students ready for the DBQ? Wanting to embed pre-AP skills into your college prep history class? Feeling the winter blahs? Check out this modified DBQ on American Imperialism in Hawaii. 🌺 Unleash the Spirit of Aloha in Your Classroom: Teach about American Imperialism through writing and discussion! 🌎

Aloha, fellow educators! 🍎✨ We are past the honeymoon period of January. I love teaching in January, minus the cold and flu season. The gloomy weather means calmer students: why are students like solar powered batteries? I digress. We have no big tests yet because we've just begun learning the new material. No tests to give means no tests to grade. Teaching is so much more fun without those parent emails or student tears from the inevitable disappointment and temporary setbacks which are the inevitable rhythm of education. January is all teaching and planning. My two favorite parts of the job.

As a winter warm-up to the AP testing season or even for a regular US History as an pre-AP skill builder, I've created a modified Document-Based Question (DBQ) lesson plan that covers the following key vocabulary and concepts: 🏝️✏️

Concepts that are more universal on the theme of Imperialism

Social Darwinism

Annexation

Territory

Cash Crop

Sovereignty

Tariff

Coup

Details that are particular to Hawaii

King Kamehameha

King Kamehameha III

Pineapple business

Sugar plantations

Pidgin

Queen Liliuokalani

Sanford Dole

This is a great reading and writing skill builder for either US History or US History AP. The lesson asks students to engage in active reading using a "thoughts, questions, epiphanies" reading strategies. Next, the lesson builds expository essay writing skills in the "DBQ" format. Through the lesson students will be asked to to group documents and explain the groupings. The lesson finishes by asking students to write a sample thesis using what they have learned. The lesson includes am answer key with one possible way to group the documents and a model thesis statement.  🌟📚

Please check out the lesson on American Imperialism in Hawaii on my Teachers Pay Teacher's page and Happy Teaching!!

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