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Will You Pick My Cotton?

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Use this cross-curricular history lesson to work on your students' informational writing skills. After listening to songs and stories related to Sultana, they engage in a several activities to boost their understanding of slavery and agricultural practice prior to and after the Civil War. Finally, learners compile research and write a two-page informational essay. This resource is twenty pages long and includes everything you'll need.

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Research, informative writing, explanatory writing, slavery, the united states civil war, the united states economy

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informational writing, research project, slavery, civil war era, sultana, us economics, social studies
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6th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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