ISSUE TWENTY, JUNE 2009
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Lesson Plan 1: High School


True Womanhood and the Civil War
By Roberta McCutcheon

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 2: The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people.


Lesson Plan 2: High School


Militancy and the Abolitionist Movement
By John McNamara

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 1A: Explain the causes of the Civil War and evaluate the importance of slavery as a principal cause of the conflict.




Lesson Plan 3: Middle School


Deadly Diseases: A Fate Worse than Dying on the Battlefield
By Elise Stevens Wilson

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 2B: The social experience of the war on the battlefield and homefront.


Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School


"Men of Color: To Arms! To Arms!"
By Elizabeth Berlin Taylor

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 2B: The social experience of the war on the battlefield and homefront.

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