Download or read book Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies written by Facing History and Ourselves and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource further aligns our Choices in Little Rock unit with the Common Core State Standards through an argumentative writing assignment. Choices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and explores civic choices -- the decisions people make as citizens in a democracy. This supplement includes specific writing prompts and teaching strategies that ask students to use evidence as they craft a formal argumentative essay. In addition, the resource features effective writing strategies for the social studies classroom.