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Alex: Did You Hear the News? Lesson PlanAlex: Did You Hear the News? Lesson Plan
Publisher
Alabama Learning Exchange
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3rd - 5th
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Social Studies & History
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Lexile Measures
1130L
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Alex: Did You Hear the News?

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After studying about the differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War and how Alabama decided to secede from the Union, students will write a newspaper article on this important decision. They will go back in time and imagine they lived in Alabama as a journalist in the year of 1861. The articles will be published in newspaper format using Microsoft Publisher and distributed.

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alabama, civil war

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alex, alabama learning exchange, alabama in the civil war

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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