Building background knowledge and historical context for the Civil War

Students are buddy reading and responding to a variety of texts that are pertinent and conversation starters for challenges in the mid-1800's.
Using these books, students, rotated through one book each day, where they will end up reading four picture books.

 

                        

Students read the text, took notes, looked up new words, and recorded definitions of new words.

 

Civil Rights picture book study

Using these picture books, students identified how the three texts are connected and what they learned.  Students used a "buddy reading" structure while reading out loud. This allows me to hear alot of students read in a short time period. 

Student small groups met to share ideas, discuss how this time in history is similar to other times in history.