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Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky Influences

Lesson Plan Three

Abraham Lincoln was a very important president at a very critical time in American history. He was born in Kentucky and many of the people who influenced his life were also from Kentucky. Your product should give your readers/viewers insight into his life and any Kentucky influences you found in your research. Each student will have an opportunity to present their media pieces and we will have an opportunity to read the printed media.

Content: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 6 - 8
Length: 5-7 days

The lesson consists of the following items:

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Did You Know?

Picture of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, stepmother of our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln had a stepmother and stepsiblings. A little over one year after his mother Nancy died, his father, Thomas, married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She had two girls and one boy.