Civil War (Common Core)

Civil War (Common Core)

The <b>The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> 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.<br /><br />How to Use the <b>The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b>book:<br /> 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. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />Tips: <br /> Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. <br /> 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. <br /> Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. <br /><br />The <b>The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b>book includes: <br /> Reading for Information<br /> Higher-Order Thinking<br /> Writing Problems<br /> Primary Source Analysis<br /> Vocabulary<br /> Graphic Organizers<br /> Map Activities<br /> & More! <br /><br />Here is the Table of Contents for the <b>The Civil War: Key Battles & Events - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book: <br /><b>The 1860 Election:</b> Reading Informational Text <br /><b>Civil War Vocabulary: </b> Vocabulary <b>G</b><br /><b>Secession: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>General Robert E. Lee: </b> Comparison of Sources<br /><b>First Shots of the Civil War: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Telegram from Fort Sumter: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Leaders of the Civil War: </b> Influential People <b>G</b><br /><br /><b>Civil War Quotations: </b> Summarizing Information <b>G</b><b>Fighting for a Cause: </b> Comparison of Primary Sources <b>GO1</b><br /><b>Civil War: </b> Causes, Events, & Effects <b>G</b><br /><b>Battle Strategies: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Emancipation Proclamation: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Identifying Major Events: </b> Chronological Events <b>G</b><br /><b>Battle of Gettysburg: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Sherman s Total War Strategy:</b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Sherman s Christmas Gift: </b> Inference<br /><b>Surrender at Appomattox: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Civil War Casualties 1861-1865: </b> Data Analysis<br />Common Core State Standards Correlations<br /><br /><b>G:</b> Includes Graphic Organizers