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Civil Rights Movement: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Civil Rights Movement Common Core Lessons and Activities Book 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.

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!

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 Road to the Civil War - Common Core Lessons and Activities book 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.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)