Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the UnionFeaturing letters, speeches, songs and poems including Waiting for the Pony Express and Grant's Memoirs, this book provides primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies. While discovering historical people and events during the period of America's expansion, students make content-area connections, develop fluent and meaningful oral reading, and develop vocabulary and word decoding skills. Included with each text is a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas. 192pp. |
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... peace for Dixie! Fear no danger! Shu'i no labor! To arms! To arms!To arms! In Dixie! Shoulder pressing close to shoulder To arms! To arms!To arms! In Dixie! To arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Hurrah! Hurrah! And live or die for Dixie ...
... peace for Dixie! Fear no danger! Shu'i no labor! To arms! To arms!To arms! In Dixie! Shoulder pressing close to shoulder To arms! To arms!To arms! In Dixie! To arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie! Hurrah! Hurrah! And live or die for Dixie ...
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... peaceful ' enameled—colorful ' lavished—gave generously | ' nobler—showing great character. Extension. Idea. ' Have students interview people in their neighborhoods and in the school to gather public sentiment about which song makes a ...
... peaceful ' enameled—colorful ' lavished—gave generously | ' nobler—showing great character. Extension. Idea. ' Have students interview people in their neighborhoods and in the school to gather public sentiment about which song makes a ...
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... peace may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall ...
... peace may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall ...
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... peace may the heavenrescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave ...
... peace may the heavenrescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave ...
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... peaceful Extension Idea I ' Allow students to conduct some additional research on the War of 1812. Ask students to work with partners to add another verse to the song. Have students analyze the following questions: How does their verse ...
... peaceful Extension Idea I ' Allow students to conduct some additional research on the War of 1812. Ask students to work with partners to add another verse to the song. Have students analyze the following questions: How does their verse ...
Contents
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Slavery in America | 45 |
Civil War Is Coming | 72 |
Civil War Leaders | 85 |
Battles of the Civil | 95 |
James Madison | 115 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | 126 |
Harriet Tubman | 134 |
Abraham Lincoln | 155 |
Robert E | 169 |
Ulysses S Grant | 180 |
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Primary Source Fluency Activities: Expanding & Preserving the Union Wendy Conklin Limited preview - 2005 |
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