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Neh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Lesson PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1460L
Lesson Plan

Neh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports

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In this lesson, students practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.

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Concepts

disasters, historical analysis, summarizing, textual analysis, primary sources

Additional Tags

diary, eye witness acounts, oral and visual information, edsitement, great chicago fire of 1871, making inferences and drawing conclusions, using primary sources, eyewitness memory

Classroom Considerations

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

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10

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