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🗺️ 8th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.4.6-8Unit 4: Sectionalism, Civil War & Reconstruction

Slavery and abolition

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🎯 Objective: Students study slavery, the Underground Railroad and abolitionists.

Lesson outline

  1. Primary sources.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one abolitionist.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.4.6-8

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain causes of the Civil War
  • Describe the war and Reconstruction

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Sectionalism, Civil War & Reconstruction”

  1. North and South differ
  2. Slavery and abolition
  3. Causes of the war
  4. The Civil War
  5. Reconstruction

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