Blog Post: The Mystery Behind a Civil War Nurse's Photo Album
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In this post, students will learn about the Civil War through a photographic album presented to Anna Lowell in 1864 by a group of attendants in D.C.'s Armory Square Hospital. In 1862, having recently been trained as a nurse, Lowell had traveled from Cambridge to D.C. and immediately gotten to work. Lowell initially served as a nurse on a hospital ship, the Daniel Webster , and, for the remainder of the Civil War, volunteered in Ward K of the Armory Square Hospital. Written by Dever Powell, Rare Book and Early Manuscript Librarian at the National Library of Medicine, this post is published on the Musem's "O Say Can You See?" blog.
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- Language Arts > General
- Social Studies > General
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- Grade 5
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- Grade 12
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By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI.5.10: CA Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Scienc
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI.5.10: Iowa Core Literacy
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI.5.10: Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI.5.10: North Dakota English Language Arts and Literacy Content Standards
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI.5.10: New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
