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 * Lesson Ideas**

America The Story of Us - A series with resources for teachers (episodes off itunes) or website CIVIL WAR [|America_Episode4_guide_FIN.pdf] [|America_Episode5_guide_FIN.pdf]

WEST (Black Elk Speaks) [|America_Episode6_guide_FIN.pdf]

Gettysburg Film Sheet (Good supplement for showing clips of G-Burg)

[|Letters from the Civil War: The Collection: Slideshow "I take up my pen"]Students are to read and view the slide show. After reading and viewing the slide show, students are to create a letter discussing the main ideas of the presentation.
 * Letters From the Civil War "I take up my pen." (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

[|Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery] Students are to summarize the main ideas of the presentation.
 * Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

[|Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation] Students are to view and read each slide of the presentation and then write a summary of Lincoln's ideas on slavery.
 * Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Technology)

Emancipation Primary Source (Guided Reading Breakdown)

Cindy Lonergan's CIVIL WAR BATTLES Project http://lonerganpmsdhistory.wikispaces.com/Civil+War+Home+Page

Explorepahistory.com: [|Is seeing believing]CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS!!

Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
 * Using main idea and summarizing strategies for primary sources:**

Summary and Significance of Gettysburg Address (Summary/Main Idea)

[|Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
 * The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents of Social History

Website for Civil War with interactive maps - recommended by Shawn Canady http://blog.teachthecivilwar.com/
 * INTERACTIVES**

MORE INTERACTIVES FORWARDED BY SHAWN There are numerous interactive Civil War maps out there that can be used on a Promethean board. National Geographic @http://java.nationalgeographic.com/maps/civilwar/

The History Channel’s Sherman’s March to the Sea: @http://www.history.com/civilwar/shermansmarch/

Civil War Preservation Trust @http://www.civilwar.org/maps/

More resources on using technology to teach the Civil War can be found at: http://www.teachthecivilwar.com and http://www.civilwarsallie.com

Interactive Gettysburg Address (*SAS Suggestion) - does not seem to work well, but has a SPANISH TRANSLATION OF GETTYSBURG ADD. http://logs2.smithsonian.museum/FlashBrowser/viewfa.html?path=kioskinteractives/GA_final/Document_gallery2.cis&aratio=1.77
 * SAS Suggestions**

JEFFERSON DAVIS' RESPONSE TO Gettysburg Address - suggested by (*SAS Suggested) Click here for page 1 of the interactive document.

Click here for page 2 of the interactive document.

Click here for page 3 of the interactive document.

Click here for page 4 of the interactive document.

Online DBQ for Causes of Civil War - by a teacher from NY State (*SAS Suggested) http://www.edteck.com/dbq/dbquest/quest11.htm