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This Maryland: A Middle Ground? lesson plan also includes:
- Maryland: A Middle Ground? (.html)
- Resource Sheet #1: Document Sample: Baltimore's Dialect: North or South, Hon? (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2: Document A: Colton's Map of the States of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #3: Document B: Images of Baltimore (.pdf)
- Resources Sheet #4: Document C: A Female Rebel in Baltimore - An Everyday Scene (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #5: Document D: Images of Baltimore - Photographs and Broadside (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #6: Document E: Fairview Inn (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #7: Document F: Percentage Change in Slave Population in Five Southern States (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #8: Document G: United States Urban Population: 1820 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #9: Document H: The Issue of Slavery (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #10: Document I: John Wilkes Booth (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #11: Document J: Rose O'Neal Greenhow (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #12: Document K: Excerpts from A. B. Davis Papers (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #13: Document L: The Baltimore Riot, 1861 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #14: Map Analysis Resource Sheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #15: Written Document Analysis Resource Sheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #16: Cartoon Analysis Resource Sheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #17: Cartoon Analysis: Four Corners Method (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #18: Scoring Rubric for Student Essay (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #19: Student Background Essay (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #20: Graphic Organizer: To Complete Document Analysis (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #21: Resource Set Questions (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #22: Prewriting Organizer (.pdf)
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Is Maryland in or out? Using primary source documents that examine the state's geopolitical location, learners discuss whether the Old Line State is Northern or Southern to its core. The resource includes numerous documents and scaffolding for pupils to write an essay discussing the history of the border state.
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Instructional Ideas
- Use the resource to highlight Maryland state history during a unit on the Civil War
Classroom Considerations
- Resource uses racial slurs
- Activities require numerous copies of worksheets or to provide them online
Pros
- Resource highlights state history
- Package includes scaffolding materials and rubrics, making it easy to use
Cons
- Resource has problematic characterizations of the enslavement of people of African descent
- Activities are complex and may require paring down to use effectively