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Voices of Democracy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "Inaugural Address" January 1961

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John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this lesson to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes pre-reading ideas, vocabulary explanations, discussion questions, and assessment ideas.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
author's purpose, inferences, john f. kennedy, textual evidence
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Additional Tags
1960 election, author's point of view, cold war, inaugural speech, speeches, voices of democracy: john fitzgerald kennedy, "inaugural address" january 1961
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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Common Core
RI.9-10.9