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Black History Profile: Thomas Mundy Peterson - Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension task to use when learning about Thomas Mundy Peterson.
Celebrate Black History Month in your classroom with this resource about Thomas Mundy Peterson, the first African American to vote under the 15th Amendment.
There are three options for you to choose from when downloading this resource.
- You may choose to print the profile of Thomas Mundy Peterson and comprehension questions on letter-size paper for your students to use independently.
- You may choose to print the profile of Thomas Mundy Peterson on tabloid paper and display it as a poster in your classroom during Black History Month.
- You may choose to download the Google Slides version of the comprehension task and questions to assign to your students.
An answer sheet is provided for the comprehension task.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.10
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

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We have added a Google Slides version to this resource.
Addition by Garrett Oct 7th, 2020
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