Two Sides

In this lesson, students will read about the two sides in the United States before the Civil War.

CONTENT OBJECTIVE: I can tell who the two sides were and what they wanted.

WIDA Standards

• WIDA Standard 5 (Social Studies): Identify and describe the Union and the Confederacy and their differences.
• WIDA Standard 2 (Language Arts): Use compare/contrast and cause/effect language (“The North wanted ___. The South wanted ___.”).
• WIDA Standard 1 (Social/Instructional): Use sentence frames to retell (“The Union was ___. The Confederacy was ___.”).

LANGUAGE: English