Louisiana State History Readers Theater Script & Mini Readers - Complete Bundle Grades 6-8

Teach Louisiana history as a connected 10-part sequence with this complete Reader's Theater and Mini Readers bundle for Grades 6–8. The series is organized as a Grade 7 Louisiana State History sequence and moves from geography and Indigenous peoples through colonization, statehood, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, civil rights, and modern Louisiana.

10 Louisiana State History Lessons Included

1. Louisiana Geography & Indigenous Peoples (FREE sample)
2. French & Spanish Colonial Louisiana
3. Louisiana & the American Revolution
4. The Louisiana Purchase
5. Statehood & the Battle of New Orleans
6. Antebellum Louisiana: Cotton, Sugar & Slavery
7. Louisiana in the Civil War
8. Reconstruction & the Fight for Rights
9. Louisiana Transformed: Jim Crow, Industry, Flood & Huey Long
10. Civil Rights to Modern Louisiana

What You Get in Each Lesson

• 10-scene Reader's Theater Script
• Original Mini Reader
• Accessible Mini Reader
• Teacher Guide
• Vocabulary support
• Student written-response activities
• Challenge questions
• 20-question multiple-choice quiz
• Answer keys
• Self-graded Google Forms quiz
• Google Docs and Google Slides classroom files

Built-In Differentiation

Every lesson keeps students on the same essential Louisiana history while offering multiple reading paths. Use the Reader's Theater for whole-class or small-group performance, the Original Mini Reader for on-grade-level content-area reading, and the Accessible Mini Reader for students who benefit from clearer syntax and additional reading support.

Flexible Classroom Use

Use the lessons as a chronological Louisiana history sequence, pull individual topics into an existing unit, assign them for close reading or fluency practice, or use the quizzes and written-response pages for review and assessment. The bundle is designed for low-prep, print-and-go use while also including Google Classroom-ready options.

Louisiana History Coverage

The sequence includes Louisiana geography and Indigenous history, French and Spanish colonial Louisiana, Louisiana and the American Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, statehood and the Battle of New Orleans, antebellum cotton and sugar economies and slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the fight for rights, Jim Crow and twentieth-century transformation, and civil rights through modern Louisiana.

Best For

• Louisiana State History
• Middle school social studies
• Grades 6–8 history classrooms
• Grade 7 content-area reading
• Reader's Theater and fluency practice
• Differentiated reading groups
• Review, assessment, and sub-plan support