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Lesson Plan
Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
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| Grades | 3 – 5 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Four 50-minute sessions |
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Urbana, Illinois |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Variety of Civil War and Gettysburg Address resources, including Websites and books
- Writing Notebooks or Journals
- LCD projector (optional)
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 10 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
This interactive invites students to create original multigenre, multimodal works--one drawing and three written texts--making the tool flexible for multiple writing activities.
PRINTOUTS
- Multigenre Mapper Planning Sheet
- Example of a completed multigenre mapper project
- Rubric
WEBSITES
PREPARATION
- Assign students to be in groups, or allow time for them to select their own groups.
- Make copies of the Gettysburg Address. Highlight one sentence on each copy so that each group has one sentence to look at, read, and learn more about.
- Rewrite the Gettysburg Address on chart paper or on the board, so it is large, or use a poster if one is available.
- Test the Multigenre Mapper on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tools and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.