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This week’s Text, in observance of the second week of National Native American Heritage Month 2025, is this reading on the French and Indian War along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. You most likely already know this, but it’s worth mentioning that this conflict is also known as the Seven Years War.

And, as the Wikipedia article (which you’ll find in the hyperlink under the last three words in the preceding paragraph) points out, this was a Great Power conflict, global in scope. I expect that this conflict will remain a part of most secondary social studies curricula.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

November is National Native American Heritage Month, and to the greatest extent possible, Mark’s Text Terminal strives to produce and publish material to observe the month.

Let’s start with this reading on the annexation of Hawaii along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Here in the United States, I have perceived, we don’t think of the Native Hawaiians in the same way we think of the indigenous peoples of the North American continent. Ethnically Polynesians, the indigenous peoples of Hawaii settled the islands 800 or so years ago. Then they experienced the same colonization and dispossession as the tribes in the United States.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.