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Name: Jackie Kibunja

Discipline: English/ Language Art (7th grade)
Topic: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Lincoln
Title

Bloody Times:
The Funeral of
Abraham
Lincoln and the
Manhunt for
Jefferson Davis
(1010L)
Grade: 7

Abraham
Lincoln
and
Frederick
Douglass:
The Story
Behind an
American
Friendship

(1110L)

Abraham
Lincoln: From
Pioneer to
President
(1040L)

Gettysburg
Address

Lincoln: A
Photobiography

(1340L)

(1040L)

Grade: 12

Grade: 7

Grade: 7

Author/Illustrator/

James L.

Grade: 8
Russell

Source/

Swanson

Freedman

Web address
Format

Chapter Book

Chapter Book

Chapter Book

Genre

Historical Non-

Biography

Summary

fiction
Swanson

Russell

E.B Phillips

Abraham Lincoln,
The Avalon Project:
http://avalon.law.ya
le.edu/19th_century
/gettyb.asp
Website (edocument)

Russell Freedman

Biography

Primary Source

Biography

The author

This historical

Freedman explores the

Biography

continues the
historical
accounts of
Lincolns
assassination with
his 20-day funeral
procession to
Springfield.
Conspiracy
theories pointed
fingers to
Jefferson Davis,
the Confederate
president, for
being behind the
assassination of
the 16th President.
In the midst of
Americas
mourning, the
hunt for Davis
began.

Freedman
examines the
lives of
Frederick
Douglass and
Abraham
Lincoln in this
tale of how the
two struggled to
bring change to
America but
joined forces to
bring equality to
the African
American
people.

examines the
childhood and
life of Abraham
Lincoln.
Allowing
readers to see
another outlook
on how his
progressive
views that
changed
America for the
better.

speech by Abraham
Lincoln set the tone
for a new America
that invoked the
mere possibility of
human equality and
a new sense of
freedom once the
Civil War was
finished.

life of President Lincoln

through photography that
capture his legacy of the
Civil War. Providing a
deeper look of all aspects
of Abraham Lincolns life
of marriage, fatherhood,
and leading a country out
of war.

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