Teaching Resource
“City upon a Hill”: A Common Core Unit
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Unit Objective
This lesson on the “City upon a Hill” section of John Winthrop’s 1630 sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity,” is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of...