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Social Studies — Grade 8
Goal 5, Objective 5.02
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and our Southern Highlanders
- Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Billie Clemens.
- The North Carolina mountains in the early 1900s through the writing and photography of Horace Kephart
- Students will develop an understanding of daily life and culture in the mountains of North Carolina during the early 20th century through photographs and written sources; practice visual literacy skills and gain experience analyzing visual and written sources of historical information; and learn to revise their early analyses of historical sources and to synthesize the information found in different kinds of primary documents by planning a museum exhibit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn L. Walbert.
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- Carnegie libraries: The future made bright
- Using maps, images, and web texts, students explore the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie and the impact of the libraries he endowed. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 8–12 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- Provider: Teaching With Historic Places: National Park Service