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Fourth graders analyze a document and make assessment and historical prediction based on the text. In this establishment of American government lesson, 4th graders analyze a poem and discuss the climate of the Union in the early 1800's.  Students make predictions and identify foreshadowing. 

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foreshadowing, literary devices, poetry, shared reading, the united states

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american history, foreshadowing, Poem, Predicting, shared reading, social studies
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4th
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English Language Arts
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