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Download full textHarness, Karen – 2000
This eighth grade lesson plan asks students to work in groups of four. They must: (1) decide whether to join the Union Army or the Confederate Army; (2) decide under which General they will serve and in which battles they will fight; and (3) once this decision has been made, assign the following roles for team or group members: photographer,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Civil War (United States), Documentation, Grade 8
Moore, Darla – 2000
This eighth grade lesson plan asks students to research and analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during the period between 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. The lesson plan asks students to read a historical novel about the time,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Child Labor, Grade 8, Information Literacy
Kelly, Freda – 1999
In this social studies and language arts interdisciplinary unit for 8th or 11th grade, students are required to take on the persona of a Populist or a Progressive. The unit is designed to create a dialogue between two similar movements in late 19th and early 20th century U.S. history. Students work in small groups to research and present their…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black History, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
