Road to Civil War- Common Core Lessons and Activities book

Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction. ©2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.

Here's how it works! 

• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations. 
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. 
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. 
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Road to Civil War - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:

• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities & More!

Tips for using and reproducing the book pages: 

• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. 
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. 
• Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

Table of Contents include:

Compromise of 1850: Reading Informational Text
Henry Clay Quotations: Primary Source Analysis 
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Reading Informational Text
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Primary Source Analysis
Culture & Economics: Reading Informational Text
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Comparison of Primary Sources
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Reading Informational Text
Bleeding Kansas: Primary Source Analysis
Road to the Civil War: Cause & Effect 
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: Writing
Lincoln/Douglas Debates: Comparison of Primary Sources
Election of 1860: Reading Informational Text
Election of 1860: Data Analysis
Pre-Civil War Vocabulary: Vocabulary
North vs. South: Point of View: Compare & Contrast 
Pre-Civil War Events: Problem-Solution-Results
Pre-Civil War Events: Chronological Events 
United States Before the Civil War: Map Activity
Common Core State Standards Correlations