Underground Railroad: Common Core Lessons & Activities

Underground Railroad: Common Core Lessons & Activities

You are purchasing the paperback format of this book. How to Use the <b>Underground Railroad - 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> Underground Railroad - 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> Underground Railroad - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book:<br /><b>The Underground Railroad:</b> Reading Informational Text <b>GO5</b><br /><b>Friends of the Underground...: </b> Reading Informational Text <br /><b>Underground Codes: </b> Writing<br /><b>Narrative of Henry Bibb: </b> Primary Source Analysis <b>GO5</b><br /><b>A Difficult Decision: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Slave Inventory: </b> Data Analysis<br /><b>Railroad Routes: </b> Map Activity<br /><b>Tracks of the Underground Railroad: </b> Problem-Solution-Results <b>G</b><br /><b>Surprising Escapes: </b> Compare & Contrast<br /><b>Escape Quotations: </b> Summarizing Information<br /><b>The Fugitive Slave Act: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Captured!: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>The North Changes: </b> Cause & Effect<br /><b>Song of the Free: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>The Power of the Pen: </b> Reading Informational Text <b>GO4</b><br /><b>Influential People: </b> Graphic Organizer <b>G</b><br /><b>Underground Railroad Vocabulary: </b> Vocabulary <b>GO10</b><br />Common Core State Standards Correlations<br /><br /><b>G:</b> Includes Graphic Organizers