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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 36
This is a review week for phonics. These activity mostly review silent letters and the letter a making the short /o/ sound. You can get...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 35
This week, students will learn about silent letters. Specifically, they will learn about the silent g and silent k at the beginning of...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 34
This week, students will learn about ways the letter a can make the short /o/ sound. When a comes after w or qu, it can make the short...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 33
This week, students will learn about using the letters ea to make both the short /e/ sound and the long /e/ sound. You can get the weekly...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 32
This week, students will learn about using the letters tion and sion to make the /shun/ sound. The letters sion can also make the /zhun/...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 31
This week, students will learn about using the letters oo to spell both the long /oo/ sound and the short /oo/ sound. Please note that...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 30
This week, students will learn about spelling the /aw/ sound with the letters aw and au. The /aw/ sound is very similar to the short /o/...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 29
This week, students will learn about spelling multisyllabic words with r-controlled and consonant + le syllables. You can get the weekly...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 27
This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 26 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 28
This week, students will learn about spelling the long /oo/ sound with the letters oo and ew. Note that the long /u/ sound can also be...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 26
This week, students will learn about spelling the /er/ sound with the letters ir and the /or/ sound with the letters oar. You can get the...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 25
This week, students will learn about the spelling of the /ch/ sound. After a short vowel, we spell the /ch/ sound with the letters tch....
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 24
This week, students will learn about the ur spelling of the /er/ sound and the ore spelling of the /or/ sound. You can get the weekly...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 23
This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 22 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...
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The New York Conspiracy of 1741 for AP World History
The New York Conspiracy of 1741 was an example of the resistance of enslaved people in North America. This is an example you could...
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The Resistance of Enslaved People in North America
The resistance of enslaved people in North America is an illustrative example in the Internal and External Challenges to State Power...
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The Formation of Maroon Societies in the Caribbean and Brazil
The formation of Maroon Societies in the Caribbean and Brazil is an illustrative example in the Internal and External Challenges to State...
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Metacom’s War for AP World History
Metacom’s War is an illustrative example in the Internal and External Challenges to State Power topic of Unit 4 of AP World History. Read...
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Metacom’s War for AP World History
Metacom’s War is an illustrative example in the Internal and External Challenges to State Power topic of Unit 4 of AP World History. Read...
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The Resistance of Queen Nzinga for AP World History
The resistance of Queen Nzinga is an illustrative example in the Internal and External Challenges to State Power topic of Unit 4 of AP...
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