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This The Battle of Stones River: A Contrast in Leadership Styles lesson plan also includes:
- Leadership Styles and Types: Authoritarian, Laissez-Faire & Democratic
- Leadership and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Source Document Excerpts (.pdf)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (.pdf)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Applied to the Battle of Stones River (.pdf)
- Leadership Primer (.pdf)
- Evidences from Texts (.pdf)
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- Vocabulary
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US Commanding General William S. Rosecrans led the Union soldiers and Confederate Commanding General Braxton Bragg led the rebel army at the Battle of Stones River. Young historians compare how the leadership styles of these two commanders made a difference in the outcome of the battle.
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- Instructors should review the source documents before conducting the lesson
- Appropriate for social studies or leadership classes
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- Class members learn how to apply the seven habits of highly effective people to a historic event
- Includes a link to an argumentative rubric for scoring the newspaper article
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