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Standard W.MCC.3.1

W.MCC.3.1 Gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experience to write narratives that:

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Diary of a Grain of Rice OR an Indigo Plant
Diary of a Grain of Rice OR an Indigo Plant

Lesson

The mid-1700s saw the rise of plantations across the South and the move from sustenance to cash crops saw a greater dependence on slave labor. The labor-intensive, back-breaking work of planting and...

Restoring the Union
Restoring the Union

Lesson

The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...