In the IMPACT Social Studies Inquiry Journal, students write, report, and explore the chapter Essential Question. They critically analyze images, share viewpoints with evidence, problem-solve in groups, complete inquiry projects, and use Reader’s Theater scripts to bring content to life.
Pada detik-detik terakhir penjajahan Jepang di Indonesia. Semua menuntut dan mendesak Bung Kamo dan Bung Hatta. Para pemuda Indonesia bilang "kita har'us merdeka" dan "Kami rela ma.ti asal Indonesia merdeka". Tapi ternyata tidak semudah membalik telapak tangan. Butuh perjuangan panjang, ribuan pengorbanan, dan tetesan hujan air mata untuk satu kata sakti itu "MERDEKA". Buku ini tidak hanya b…
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times. As an immigrant who came to the West, El A…
Originally written in code, Pepy's diary includes his unforgettable eyewitness account of the 1666 fire
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …
Genya—the nickname of the book’s author and story’s protagonist, Yevgenia—knows from age five that she wants to be an artist. When she turns eleven, she’ll apply to the same prestigious art school that her mother attended. But making the cut won’t be easy, especially with the school’s open-secret rule that no more than 1% of the student body can be Jewish. The years before Geny…
Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage at its heart – the journey along the Silk Roads. From ancient world laws laid down by King Hammurabi and the…