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span style=”font-size: medium;”The Civil War Key Battles and Events – Common Core Lessons and Activities book/spanMeet the new Common Core State Standards/em for ELA as well as Literacy ;amp; Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction. Copyright 2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.span style=”font-size: small;”Here’s how it works!/spanWork 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 State Standards 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 ofCommon CoreState Standards, right before your eyes!span style=”font-size: small;”The Civil Way Key Battles and Events- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:/spanReading for InformationHigher-Order ThinkingWriting ProblemsPrimary Source AnalysisVocabularyGraphic OrganizersMap Activities ;amp; More!span style=”font-size: small;”Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:/spanUse 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 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see whichCommon Corestandards are covered in each lesson.divCopyright 2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.ISBN:978-0-635-10623-0/divspan style=”font-size: small;”Table of Content includes:/spanp style=”padding-left: 30px;”The 1860 Election: Reading Informational Text br /Civil War Vocabulary: Vocabulary br /Secession: Primary Source Analysisbr /General Robert E. Lee: Comparison of Sourcesbr /First Shots of the Civil War: Reading Informational Textbr /Telegram from Fort Sumter: Primary Source Analysisbr /Leaders of the Civil War: Influential People br /Civil War Quotations: Summarizing Information br /Fighting for a Cause: Comparison of Primary Sources br /Civil War: Causes, Events, ;amp; Effects br /Battle Strategies: Reading Informational Textbr /Emancipation Proclamation: Reading Informational Textbr /Identifying Major Events: Chronological Events br /Battle of Gettysburg: Primary Source Analysisbr /Sherman’s Total War Strategy: Reading Informational Textbr /Sherman’s Christmas Gift: Inferencebr /Surrender at Appomattox: Primary Source Analysisbr /Civil War Casualties 1861-1865: Data Analysisbr /Common Core State Standards Correlationsbr /
