Making Connections in The River Between Us by Richard Peck
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Theme: |
Civil War
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Grades: |
6 - 8
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts
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Duration: |
45 minute class session
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Standards
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Florida State Standards
- LA.7.1.7.2 Analyze the author’s purpose (e.g., to persuade, inform, entertain, explain) and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning.
- LA.7.1.7.3 Determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing,and identifying relevant details.
- LA.7.1.7.6 Analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections.
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Read pages 51–60 from The River Between Us
- Read the First Inaugural Address by Abe Lincoln during the time and setting of The River Between Us
- Read fiction and nonfiction from the time of the Civil War to analyze and evaluate similar topics.
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