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Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Public Views of Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Public Views of Lincoln

Grade Levels

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Course, Subject

History, Arts and Humanities
Related Academic Standards
CC.1.2.3.E CC.1.2.3.E
Use text features and search tools to locate and interpret information.
CC.1.3.3.E CC.1.3.3.E
Refer to parts of texts when writing or speaking about a text using such terms as chapter, scene and stanza and describe how each successive part builds upon earlier sections.
CC.1.4.2.G CC.1.4.2.G
Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts.
CC.1.4.3.G CC.1.4.3.G
Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts.
CC.1.4.4.G CC.1.4.4.G
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts.
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    Information to gain or expand knowledge can be acquired through a variety of sources.
    Purpose, topic and audience guide types of writing
    Writing is a means of documenting thinking
    Writing is a recursive process that conveys ideas, thoughts and feelings
    People have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.
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    Essential content of text, including literary elements and devices, inform meaning
    Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality
    Informational sources have unique purposes.
    Organization of information facilitates meaning.
    Various types of writing are distinguished by their characteristics
    There are dances that are unique to certain time periods.
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    Compile information from resource materials.
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    Identify resource materials to achieve a research goal.
    Locate and select appropriate resource materials to achieve a research goal.
    Organize and present information drawn from research.
    Question, reflect on, and interpret essential content of text
    Summarize relevant information from source material to achieve a research goal.
    Write a series of paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details.
    Write persuasive pieces that contain a clearly stated position or opinion and includes supporting details with sources cited where appropriate.
    Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality
    Identify and describe dances that are unique to certain time periods.

Description

This lesson will give students an overview of how the public viewed Abraham Lincoln and how those views changed based on the moments in history in which Lincoln found himself. Students will interpret political cartoons and images of Lincoln before his inauguration, during his presidency, during the Civil War, and after his assassination. They will create letters written in Abraham Lincoln's voice, in which he responds to the cartoons published about him. 

Web-based Resource

Access this lesson at:  Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Public Views of Lincoln

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Story Credits:  https://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-9



The idea for ExplorePAhistory.com first took shape early in the year 2000. Kathleen Pavelko, President and CEO of WITF, Inc. (Harrisburg's PBS and NPR affiliate), imagined the creation of an online resource that would make innovative use of the nearly 2,000 historical markers that the state's official history agency, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), had been placing on the Pennsylvania landscape since 1946. The new web site would make Pennsylvania and American history more exciting and available to public audiences, while providing educational resources for K-12 teachers and promoting visitation to the state's many historic sites and museums. When Pavelko and her colleagues from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network presented the idea for such a web site to officials at the PHMC, they quickly agreed to a partnership. And ExplorePAhistory.com was born.

 

ExplorePAhistory.com was launched in the spring of 2003 with support from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the William Penn Foundation, and the United States Department of Education. From the start, WITF has assumed responsibilities for project management, while PHMC has taken on content management responsibilities. WITF has managed funds and overseen the site's initial technical development by Pittsburgh-based firm Ripple Effects Interactive and subsequent development by MATRIX, a program based at Michigan State University. PHMC has worked with the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, and history professionals across the state to create the site's content. The two partners also worked with the Ridgway School District to secure and manage Teaching American History Grants and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce educational content.

 

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