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10-09-2015
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Lesson Plan
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Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade
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The “Homer’s Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field” lesson consists of three activities that should be used together. First students analyze a painting, photograph, and a diary entry from the Civil War. Then they write a monologue imagining the perspective of a character in the painting.