Unit Plan

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Lincoln's Choice [Pdf]

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"Lincoln's Choice" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about young Abraham Lincoln saving a friend from drowning. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determing the lesson to be learned and underlining the parts of the story that support it. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence and main idea.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)