Franklin Pierce Lesson Plans

1. Puzzling Clue Vocabulary
...you how to do something. Answer: manual History/U.S. History Puzzle piece clue 1: This president is known for his "New Deal." Puzzle piece clue 2: After his presidency, which was the longest on record, no other president would be allowed to serve more than two terms (eight years). Answer: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Puzzle piece clue 1: This war is said to have been the first battle of the Cold War. Puzzle piece clue 2: No peace treaty has ever been signed to settle this war. Answer: The Korean War Be sure you have one clue for each student in the class. If an odd number of students are in attendance on t...

2. Kentuckiana Digital Library Home
...dividuals had very little power in regulating the military strategy of the Confederate Army. Resources: Overhead Transparency of Exit Slip Images: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg from the Kentuckiana Digital Library. SET -Opening Activity- Have students read Jefferson Davis' letter to Franklin Pierce about the inevitability of the Civil War. A copy of this letter can be found in Letters to a Nation edited by Andrew Carroll. Ask students the following question: What is the significance of Jefferson Davis and why is it important that he wrote this letter? Instruct students that today they will lea...

3. Who Were They Really, These Presidents?
...nroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe Welcome to The Amercian Presidency http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2019700-h&templatename=/article/ article.html American Presidents http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp? PresidentNumber=5 Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/fpierce.html Franklin Pierce 14 President of the United States http://www.presidentpierce.com Welcome to The Amercian Presidency http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2023180-h&templatename=/article/ article.html James K. Polk Virtualology - James K. Pol...

4. Scandals, Gossip, and the American Presidency
...sidential scandals equally among the students in the class. Scandal President XYZ Correspondence John Adams Bigamy Andrew Jackson Sally Hemmings Thomas Jefferson Ellen Randolph Martin Van Buren Julia Gardiner John Tyler Mexican American War James Polk Corrupt Cabinet Zachary Taylor Ostend Manifesto Franklin Pierce Old Clothes Scandal Abraham Lincoln Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Credit Mobilier Ulysses Grant Whiskey Ring Ulysses Grant His Fraudulency Rutherford Hayes Credit Mobilier James A Garfield Machine Politics Chester Arthur Illegitimate Child Grover Cleveland Campaign Finance Theodore Roosevelt Balling...

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
...1850 and, with its strong popular and critical reception, brought Hawthorne considerable and enduring fame. Hawthorne continued to write Subject Areas throughout his life, taking at times employment (usually political appointments, including the American consul at Liverpool, England when his friend Franklin Pierce was elected the 14th president of the United States). Hawthorne lived for a time in England and Italy with his children and wife, Sophie Peabody, whom he married in 1842, before returning to his home in Concord in 1860. By 1864, Hawthorne had fallen ill and died on a trip with his friend Franklin Pi...

6. Steamboats in America Steamboats in America
...ssissippi Steamboatman: The Story of Henry Miller Shreve. Walker , 1985. McCall, Edith. Steamboats to the West. Childrens Press, 1980. Mono, F. N. Willie Jasper's Golden Eagle: Being an Eyewitness Account of the Great Steamboat Race between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee. Doubleday , 1976. Reck, Franklin. The Romance of American Transportation . Crowell, 1962. Sheffer, H. R. Paddle wheelers . Crestwood, 1982. Stein, R. The Story of Mississippi Steamboats . Childrens Press, 1987. Ward, Ralph. Steamboats: A History of the Early Adventure . Bobbs, 1973. Encyclopedias Instructional Roles : The library media sp...

7. I Do Solemnly Swear: Presidential Inaugurations
...home in Vermont. Later, Justice Adolph A. Hoehling of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia re-administered the oath of office to him. Date Created: 05/21/02 The Constitution offers a choice. Presidents may "swear" (on a Bible) or "affirm" their oath (on some other book). Two months before Franklin Pierce became President, his family having already lost two children to typhus was involved in a train wreck in which their only surviving child, thirteen-year-old Benjamin, was crushed to death. Jane Pierce believed the accident was a punishment from God for her husband's acceptance of the presidency. As...

8. Dame Schools, Summer Schools, and Female Seminaries
...le GOALS 2000: Educate America Act of 1994 Goss v. Lopez Indian Removal Act of 1830 Indian Reorganization Act Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act Kalamazoo Case Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 National Defense Education Act (NDEA) National School Lunch Act No Child Left Behind Pierce v. Society of Sisters Plessy v. Ferguson Public Law 94-142 The More General Diffusion of Knowledge Act Tape v. Hurley Tinker v. Des Moines People: Jane Adams Catherine Beecher Mary McLeod Bethune Elizabeth Blackwell President George H. W. Bush and Nation?s Governors Committee of One Hundred Committee of Te...

9. Louisiana Voices Unit VI Lesson 6 Louisiana's Legendary Musicians
...y, and rock. In other words, Lucinda Williams' music is a creolization of different styles. Students are invited to research the names of musicians in the Musical Legends Jeopardy activity worksheet, but below are brief descriptions of three Louisiana legends: MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WEBB PIERCE Born in Louisiana, Webb Pierce got his start North Louisiana with the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH in 1944. 1921-1991 One of his most famous hits was a remake of Country Musician "In the Jailhouse Now." He also wrote "Wondering," "More and More," and "There Stands the Glass." He became a regular with the Grand...

10. Louisiana Voices Unit VI Lesson 1 Music Around the State: Sound and Place
...eco South Zydeco or Piano Louisiana sont pas Accordion, sal? by Frottoir Clifton (rubboard), Chenier Drums, French Singing Group Gospel Quartet North Jezebel Singing, Louisiana by The Guitar Ever Ready Singers Trumpet, Jazz New Eh l? Piano, Orleans bas by Percussion, Billie and Call & DeDe Response Pierce vocals in English & Creole French Trumpet, Tuba, Mardi New Let's Go Drums, Hand Gras Orleans Get 'Em Percussion Indians by Bo Instruments Dollis, (tambourine & Monk cowbell, etc.), Boudreaux Call-and-Response and the Singing, ReBirth Trombone, Brass Band Saxophone. Electric Contemporary South Lake Guitar, Co...