Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Aim: What was the cause of "Bleeding Kansas?" Your students will research, analyze, and use their critical thinking skills to read about John Brown and Bleeding Kansas to complete the scaffolding questions. They will examine and analyze the details and causes in this interactive activity.
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Included in this resource:
• Title page
• Do Now - Quote Analysis: students answer questions based on quotations of Frederick Douglass and Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee regarding John Brown
• Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown Attacks Harpers Ferry, and Violence in Congress reading passages with scaffolding questions for student responses
• John Brown...Hero or Criminal? Quotes from famous Americans
• Students brainstorm details regarding both opinions of John Brown. Was he a hero or a villain?
• Students complete the graphic organizer arguing opinions of both sides
• Application/Closing/Higher Order Thinking Question for student understanding - Your opinion: John Brown...hero or villain?
• Answer Key for Teachers
• Interactive notebook pages
★ This resource contains primary source documents and secondary source documents and quote passages from Creating America Social Studies textbook
★ NOTE: You can group your students according to your discretion. I like to group students and assign them to a side - hero or villain. They would then brainstorm and argue details from that perspective. It definitely ensues a lively debate!
★ I split this lesson into two days - one day for readings and creation of arguments, the other for a debate!
Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary, argument
Differentiation: scaffolding questions, cooperative (may work with a partner(s) according to teacher's discretion for scaffolding questions and activities)
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