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Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter Unit PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter Unit Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Unit Plans
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Lexile Measures
1080L
Unit Plan

Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter

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Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting point for discussion of and practice in the conventions and purposes of letter writing.

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Concepts

critical thinking, historical analysis, letter writing, primary sources

Additional Tags

historical letters, oral and visual information, critical analysis, edsitement, edsitement: i'm gonna sit right down and write someone a letter, internet skills, using primary sources, graphically and in writing

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.8 RH.11-12.3 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.4 RH.11-12.10 RH.9-10.10 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.3

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