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Drummer Boys: Creating Historical Fiction and Studying Historical Documents

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 1:10pm

--Daniel C. King
Students analyze historical documents (photos and a personal letter, included as handouts) and write creatively about what they have learned.

This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a pdf of about 0.8 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/35/MLL35.pdf [1]

Civil War [2]
Middle Level Learning [3]
Middle Level [4]
US History [5]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/drummer-boys-creating-historical-fiction-and-studying-historical-documents

Links:
[1] http://members.ncss.org/mll/35/MLL35.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/cilvi-war
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/middle-level-learning
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/middlelevel
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory