Knowledge/Skill Building
🏷️ Theme Coding with Color Keys
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Content Expertise
Effective Communication
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7
VA:Cn10.1.IIa
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.9
Submission Required
Using highlighters, sticky notes, and a shared code bank, students practice assigning evidence to themes such as enlistment pressure, propaganda, rationing, grief, disability, displacement, and civilian labor. They code a short common text set first, then begin coding their own collected evidence, noting overlaps and anomalies rather than forcing every source into one category.
Plan day
Day 38
Duration
55 min
Grouping
Whole Class
Steps
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