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September 17, 1862

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 2: The Battles of the Civil War
Through the use of maps and original documents, this lesson will focus on the key battles of the Civil War, Gettysburg and Vicksburg and show how the battles contributed to its outcome. It will also examine the "total war" strategy of General Sherman, and the role of naval warfare in bringing about a Union victory.

September 17, 1787

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
Students will learn how the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution was shaped by historical events and how it reflected the fundamental values and principles of a newly independent nation.

September 17, 1883

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
This lesson prompts students to think about a poem’s speaker within the larger context of modernist poetry. First, students will review the role of the speaker in two poems of the Romanticism period before focusing on the differences in Wallace Stevens’ modernist “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
Through close study of Alfred Stieglitz’ 1907 photograph "The Steerage" and William Carlos William's 1962 poem "Danse Russe," students will explore how poetry can be, in Plutarch’s words, "a speaking picture," and a painting (or in this case a photograph) can be "a silent poetry."

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