Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. Background
  3. Content Background
  4. Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Appendix – Implementing District Standards
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Notes

Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction

Alexandra Edwards

Published September 2013

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Appendix – Implementing District Standards

- 8 H 2: I use this to explain the impact of economic, political, social and military conflicts within the United States. I am coming out of the Civil War into Reconstruction, so this would cover citizenship and immigration laws.

- 8 H 3: I use this to explain how migration and immigration contributed to the development of the nation, especially with westward movement and Native American assimilation. How does this migration affect the landscape? What is the place of big business (i.e. railroad monopolies) in motivating settlement of the West? This also covers how various groups have impacted the economic and social climate of the nation.

- 8 C & G 2.3 This applies to the democratic ideals that shaped the government and nation as a whole. I am examining how the Constitution is not being applied even- handedly across the board. Reconstruction creates new amendments but there is little in place to guarantee that those rights are implemented and kept in place for all citizens. Students are examining the impact of human and civil rights in the South during and after Reconstructions, in the West with immigrants and displaced Native Americans.

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