Abraham's Battle
Publication Information
Author:  Banks, Sara Harrell	Illustrator:
Title:  Abraham's Battle	Date:  1999
Publisher:  Atheneum	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-689-81779-7	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:
General Information:
Book Type(s):    historical fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
An ex-slave named Abraham, a young Confederate soldier, and a girl from Gettysburg meet in the cataclysmic days of the Civil War battle. Abraham meets Lincoln after the President gives his famous address.
Teaching Ideas:
Teachers will want to use this book in a Civil War text set that includes Polacco's Pink and Say, Murphy's A Boy's War, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Freedman's Lincoln, Fleischman's Bull Run, and Paulsen's Soldier's Heart. The Civil War matrix on this website under Trade Books Table of Contents, GED Matrices provides additional topic possibilities. The well-drawn characters offer possibilities for comparison and contrast activities and discussion on what they represent about the North and South. The multiple meanings of the title could be explored in discussion or writing. The map of the Gettysburg battlefield in the book and others on the web sites below encourage students to follow the stages of the battle. web sites: users.lr.net/~duda, www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm, www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/Gettysburg/Gettysburg.html
Teaching Strategies:
Matrices or Charts    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf
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Ethnic Groups > African-American Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > compassion Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > determination/perseverance History > region > U.S. history > well-known people > Lincoln, Abraham History > topic > war > Civil War > Gettysburg Social Studies > sociology > social issues > racism > race relations Communities > historical

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