Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears – Common Core Lessons & Activities

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How to Use the Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Gold, Cotton, & Tribal Land: Reading Informational Text
Indian Land in the 1820s: Map Activity
Sequoyah and the Alphabet: Reading Informational Text
The Five Civilized Tribes: Main Idea Organizer G
Dr. Worcester & Dr. Butler: Inference
Chief William McIntosh: Reading Informational Text
President Andrew Jackson: Reading Informational Text
The Great White Father: Primary Source Analysis
Indian Removal Act: Reading Informational Text
Jackson vs. Cherokee: Comparison of Primary Sources
March to the Trail of Tears: Graphic Organizer G
Trail of Tears Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Pre-Removal Problems: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Cherokee Chief John Ross: Primary Source Analysis
Treaty of New Echota: Reading Informational Text
John Ross' Speech: Primary Source Analysis
Events Leading to the Trail of Tears: Chronological Events GO12
Accounts of the Trail of Tears: Comparison of Primary Sources
Life and Death on the Trail: Data Analysis
Tracing the Cherokee Trails: Map Activity
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download aHERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)