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About This Lesson Plan Unit > In the three lessons in this unit, students will explore three iconic American symbols: the Flag of the United States of America, the Statue of Liberty, and the Great Seal of the United States...

About This Lesson Plan Unit > The two lessons in this unit explore the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Students will read a letter and a speech by Abraham Lincoln and a letter by Robert E. Lee providing two leaders’ assessments...

Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical...

About This Lesson Plan Unit > Over the course of three lessons, students will focus on the late-nineteenth-century history of Chinese immigration and the immigration and naturalization policies of...

About This Lesson Plan Unit > In the four lessons in this unit, students will learn how to read and understand President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, given at the dedication of the soldier’s cemetery at the battlefield....

About This Lesson Plan Unit > The four lessons in this unit explore the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which mapped the Louisiana Purchase. Students will read entries from journals written during the expedition. They will...

About This Lesson Plan Unit > The four lessons in this unit explore the process by which the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and annexed the territory. The students will examine government documents,...

About This Lesson Plan Unit > In the two lessons in this unit students will analyze four songs and two poems from the Vietnam War era. These songs and poems in many ways reflect the experience of the average soldier and...