Fourscore is a unique and valuable tool for both experienced teachers and those new to teaching history and ELA. Here is a single source for a wide range of ready-to-go teaching materials, allowing you to quickly find appropriate texts for students based on era, theme, and text complexity. Then you can easily create your own customized sets of reading assignments for each of your classes.
The system also includes a wide range of instructional resources to help educators integrate Common Core State Standards and the C3 Framework into their classroom. Please click on a topic below to learn more.
- Collections of Teaching Materials
- Essays from American Heritage
- Guiding Questions
- Instructional Tasks/Models
- Historical Eras
- Historic Documents, including court decisions, speeches, proclamations, legislation, and letters
- Historic Images, including photographs, paintings, and political cartoons
- Common Core State Standards
- C3 Framework (College, Career, and Civic Life)
- Text Complexity Metrics