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The Civil War: Key Battles and Events: Common Core Lessons & Activities
The Civil War Key Battles and Events Common Core Lessons Activities Author:Carole Marsh 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, t... more »ext-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!
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.
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 G
Secession: 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 G
Civil War Quotations: Summarizing Information GFighting for a Cause: Comparison of Primary Sources GO1
Civil War: Causes, Events, & Effects G
Battle Strategies: Reading Informational Text
Emancipation Proclamation: Reading Informational Text
Identifying Major Events: Chronological Events G
Battle 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.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)« less