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The
The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.
How to Use the
The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
• 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
The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook 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
The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
The 1860 Election: Reading Informational Text
Civil War Vocabulary: Vocabulary
GSecession: Primary Source Analysis
General Robert E. Lee: Comparison of Sources
First Shots of the Civil War: Reading Informational Text
Telegram from Fort Sumter: Primary Source Analysis
Leaders of the Civil War: Influential People
GCivil War Quotations: Summarizing Information
GFighting for a Cause: Comparison of Primary Sources
GO1Civil War: Causes, Events, & Effects
GBattle Strategies: Reading Informational Text
Emancipation Proclamation: Reading Informational Text
Identifying Major Events: Chronological Events
GBattle of Gettysburg: Primary Source Analysis
Sherman's Total War Strategy: Reading Informational Text
Sherman's Christmas Gift: Inference
Surrender at Appomattox: Primary Source Analysis
Civil War Casualties 1861-1865: Data Analysis
Common Core State Standards Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)