Primary Sources: Civil War
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Grades:
5 - 12
Product Number: BCP3920
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| $129.99 ea. |
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Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods.
Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Plus, each kit meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents and this series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.
Photographs: President Lincoln with officers at the Antietam battlefield; Hot air balloon used by Union soldiers in 1862; General Grant in camp at Cold Harbor; Burial party at battlefield of cold Harbor; Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864; Black drummer boy in uniform; Mathew Brady's 1865 portrait of General Robert E. Lee; President Lincoln's box at Ford Theatre.
Primary Sources: Reviews of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin election banner from 1860; Emancipation Proclamation; Black soldier recruitment poster from 1863; Gettysburg Address; Letter from a Union soldier to his sister; Chickamauga battlefield map; Parole of Lee and his officers.
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