Road to the Civil War – Common Core Lessons & Activities

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How to Use the Road to the Civil War - 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 Road to the Civil War - 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 Road to the Civil War - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Compromise of 1850: Reading Informational Text
Henry Clay Quotations: Primary Source Analysis G
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Reading Informational Text
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Primary Source Analysis
Culture & Economics: Reading Informational Text
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Comparison of Primary Sources
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Reading Informational Text
Bleeding Kansas: Primary Source Analysis
Road to the Civil War: Cause & Effect G
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: Writing
Lincoln/Douglas Debates: Comparison of Primary Sources
Election of 1860: Reading Informational Text
Election of 1860: Data Analysis
Pre-Civil War Vocabulary: VocabularyG
North vs. South:Point of View: Compare & Contrast GO1
Pre-Civil War Events: Problem-Solution-ResultsGO9
Pre-Civil War Events: Chronological Events GO12
United States Before the Civil War:Map Activity
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)