Finding Freedom invites students to follow America's journey toward finding freedom by examining multiple perspectives, conflicts, ideas, and challenges through seminal historical texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), features close readings o

Emily Mofield, Ed.D., is a consulting teacher for gifted education in Sumner County, TN. She is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in language arts and has taught gifted language arts classes for 10 years.

Tamra Stambaugh, Ph.D., is the Director of Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt University. She is the coauthor (with Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska) of Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners, Overlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Students, and the Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program.

Acknowledgements Introduction Pretest Pretest Rubric Lesson 1 ¿Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry Lesson 2 ¿Proclamation Upon British Depredations, Burning of the Capitol by James Madison Lesson 3 ¿Speech to Congress on Indian Removal by Andrew Jackson Lesson 4 ¿The Hypocrisy of the Nation Must Be Exposed by Frederick Douglass Lesson 5 ¿First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln Lesson 6 ¿Speech Before Congress by Carrie Chapman Catt Lesson 7 ¿A Day of Infamy by Franklin D. Roosevelt Lesson 8 ¿Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs¿Space by John F. Kennedy Lesson 9 ¿We Shall Overcome by Lyndon B. Johnson Lesson 10 ¿9/11 Address to the Nation by George W. Bush Lesson 11 ¿First Inaugural Address by Barack Obama Lesson 12 Final Reflection and Culminating Project Posttest Posttest Rubric References Appendix A: Instructions for Using the Models Appendix B: Blank Models and Guides Appendix C: Rubrics About the Authors Common Core State Standards Alignment