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Forever
Free Teacher Resource Packet
From the Decatur Public Library, these materials were developed
specifically for the Forever Free exhibit. Use these
materials before, during, and after on a class visit to the
exhibit. The guided interactive activities help students find
information and meaning from the exhibit and are not identified
by grade levels, allowing for flexibility. |
We
Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Grades 3-5: Students will understand the historical context
and significance of Lincoln's inaugural address through archival
documents such as campaign posters, sheet music, vintage photographs
and documents. [Web site coordinated by National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH).] |
Slave
Narratives: Constructing U.S. History through Analyzing Primary
Sources
Grades 3-5: In these activities, students research narratives
from the Federal Writers' Project and describe the lives of
former African slaves in the U.S. -- both before and after emancipation.
(NEH) |
African-American
Communities in the North before the Civil War
Grades 6-8: What was life like in three free African-American
communities between the American Revolution and the Civil War?
What generalizations can be made about life in the North for
African Americans? In this lesson, students will tour and/or
read about some important free African-American communities
in the North before the Civil War. (NEH) |
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Before
Brother Fought Brother
Grades 6-8: A complex series of events led to the Civil War
and the five lessons in this unit help students develop a
foundation on which to understand the basic disagreements
between North and South. Through the investigation of primary
source documents -photographs, census information and other
archival documents-students gain an appreciation of everyday
life in the North and South, changes occurring in the lives
of ordinary Americans, and some of the major social and economic
issues of the years before the Civil War. (NEH)
- Factory
vs. Plantation in the North and South
- People
and Places in the North and South
- A
Debate Against Slavery
- Life
Before the Civil War
- Women's
Lives Before the Civil War
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Lincoln:
A Photobiography
Grades 5-8: This unit focuses on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil
War. Lessons are based on Russell Freedman's 1988 Newbery Medal
winner, Lincoln: A Photobiography. |
Small
Planet's Civil War Lesson Plan
Grades 5-8: Civil War lesson plan with a good annotated list
of fiction and biography about the era. |
Using
Art to Study the Past: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation
Proclamation
Grades 6-8: Lesson plan analyzes the symbolism in a painting
by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900) entitled "First
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before Lincoln's Cabinet,"
e.g., Why is there a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the background?
What message is conveyed by the use of light and dark? (Site
created by the White House.) |
Attitudes
Towards Emancipation
Grades 9-12: The objectives are to evaluate the provisions of
the Emancipation Proclamation; to trace the stages that led
to Lincoln's formulation of this policy; to explore the range
of contemporary public opinion on the issue of emancipation;
to document the multifaceted significance of the Emancipation
Proclamation within the context of the Civil War era.(NEH) |
Families
in Bondage
Grades 9-12: This two-part lesson plan draws on letters written
by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved
ones still in bondage, singling out a few among many slave experiences
to offer a look at slavery and its effects on African American
family life. (NEH) |
Lincoln
in the Classroom
Grades 9-12. Abraham Lincoln Association: Abraham Lincoln
and the Civil War is a document-based unit for the high school
classroom. |
Spirituals
Grades 9-12: Among the objectives are to learn about the role
spirituals have played in African American history and religion,
and to examine Harriet Tubman's use of spirituals in her work
for the Underground Railroad. (NEH) |
