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Antietam and Emancipation: Traditional Elementary Civil War Lesson Plan | American Battlefield Trust
Antietam and Emancipation: Traditional Elementary Civil War Lesson Plan | American Battlefield Trust
Several days needed for this lesson to encompass the timeline and battle itself along with its connection with the Emancipation Proclamation. This is another example of why Antietam is the better instructional choice compared to Gettysburg.
#5th Grade Unit 6 - Civil War#lesson plan
·battlefields.org·
Antietam and Emancipation: Traditional Elementary Civil War Lesson Plan | American Battlefield Trust
The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union | EDSITEment
The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union | EDSITEment
This lesson will examine Lincoln's First Inaugural Address to understand why he thought his duty as president required him to treat secession as an act of rebellion and not a legitimate legal or constitutional action by disgruntled states.
#lesson plan#US History I#President Abraham Lincoln#primary source#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·edsitement.neh.gov·
The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union | EDSITEment
The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union | EDSITEment
The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union | EDSITEment
This lesson will examine the most famous speech in American history to understand how Lincoln turned a perfunctory eulogy at a cemetery dedication into a concise and profound meditation on the meaning of the Civil War and American union.
#lesson plan#US History I#President Abraham Lincoln#primary source#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·edsitement.neh.gov·
The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union | EDSITEment
Women in the Civil War - (Library of Congress)
Women in the Civil War - (Library of Congress)
This lesson uses primary sources - diaries, letters, and photographs - to explore the experiences of women in the Civil War. By looking at a series of document galleries, the perspectives of slave women, plantation mistresses, female spies, and Union women emerge. Ultimately, students will understand the human consequences of this war for women.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·loc.gov·
Women in the Civil War - (Library of Congress)
Teaching HistoryTech: Animate Your DBQ
Teaching HistoryTech: Animate Your DBQ
Blog post lesson plan that shows the process through which this teacher started with the DBQ project's question on Gettysburg using primary document and statistics, the had students create infographics and videos using animoto. Creative approach that's worth consideration
#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·kerryhawk02.blogspot.com·
Teaching HistoryTech: Animate Your DBQ
The Civil War (documentary) - Wikiquote
The Civil War (documentary) - Wikiquote
For someone who taped each episode on VHS and copied quotes by hand with pad and pencil, the value of one page the includes quotes from the series is clear. For newcomers, grab any one of these and make it the focus of a homework question or a "do now' prompt. Maybe have students describe what sort of book would have that quote on it's cover?
#lesson plan#quotes#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·en.wikiquote.org·
The Civil War (documentary) - Wikiquote
Lincoln and Colonization: Policy or Propaganda?
Lincoln and Colonization: Policy or Propaganda?
This is not an article for students to read and understand, it is an article for earnest and committed teachers of history. In exploring the interpretation of Lincoln'c views on slavery in general and colonization in particular, this articles shows how "either/or" interpretations of history are always misleading. That is what could make it an article for students. Teachers can have students skim the article and skim to count the number of historians referenced in it. Make it a game - first one with the correct number wins. The point is this - look how many different ideas are generated by one question - what did Lincoln think about colonization as a solution to slavery?
#secondary sources#Do Now#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·quod.lib.umich.edu·
Lincoln and Colonization: Policy or Propaganda?
Gary Gallagher civil war series Lecture
Gary Gallagher civil war series Lecture
Teachers who show students a clip of this lecture from 59:38 to 1:05:00 get the chance to have them watch a master historian at work. The University of Virginia professor and universally acknowledged expert on the Civil War responds to a question about the role of slavery in the War and in the process, thoroughly eviserates the notion that the war was about anything else but slavery. The clip can be used in many ways, the least of which is the content alone. Teachers can have students track the way he marshals evidence to support he thesis, the way he describes it and the links he makes between his evidence and his thesis. This is an historian at work, doing what he does best. Students see historians in documentaries too often - it is much better to show them fighting it out with ignorant ideas.
#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War
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Gary Gallagher civil war series Lecture
Abraham Lincoln SAC | Stanford History Education Group
Abraham Lincoln SAC | Stanford History Education Group
President Abraham Lincoln is usually remembered as a staunch abolitionist who ended slavery. However, historians have debated whether or not Lincoln truly believed in racial equality. In this structured academic controversy, students examine selections from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's letter to a friend, and a contemporaneous, theoretical view of slavery to explore Lincoln’s multifaceted views on race.
#lesson plan#primary source#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·sheg.stanford.edu·
Abraham Lincoln SAC | Stanford History Education Group
Introduction | Remembering Lincoln - Ford Theatre Primary Source Documents
Introduction | Remembering Lincoln - Ford Theatre Primary Source Documents

Much of the work students complete for history classes is self-contained within a set of specific documents or media. They are given explicit step-by-step directions to answer specific questions directly related to the media they've been given. This site offers a lesson more akin to the work of an historian; browsing through a broad collection of primary source documents of personal experiences of people of the past with an iconic moment - the assassination of the President Lincoln. Teachers should consider giving students the uncomfortable experience of trying to pull together a variety of sources to come up with just one story - how did the United States react to the assassination?

Just click through the Map of Responses and take a look at the southern sources, that will be enough to convince you that this is worth it

#primary source#lesson plan#US I Unit 5 Civil War
·rememberinglincoln.fords.org·
Introduction | Remembering Lincoln - Ford Theatre Primary Source Documents