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Loc: Teachers: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband, Spies Lesson PlanLoc: Teachers: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband, Spies Lesson Plan
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Library of Congress
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Loc: Teachers: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband, Spies

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With this lesson, a collection of primary texts, including diaries, letters, and photographs help students understand how women were affected by the Civil War. Students will explore, through reading a collection of documents, the perspectives of a variety of women including slaves, plantation mistresses, female spies and Union women.

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Concepts

civil war, women's history month

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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