Jefferson davis biography timeline graphic organizer
The graphic organizer takes direct quotes from both speeches and has students match the quotes with a "modern day" translation.!
Easy to assign, differentiate, monitor, and assessSTUDENTS TURN RESEARCH INTO BIOGRAPHIES WITH ORIGINAL STICK FIGURE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.
He was the youngest of ten children of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Cook Davis both from Pennsylvania.
Davis' family went to Louisiana first and later to Mississippi.
In he began his education at the Wilkinson Academy near the family cotton plantation. Two years later he went to Catholic school and was the only Protestant student at the school.
Davis went on to Jefferson College in Mississippi and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky. His father always stressed studies and told him that, "Knowledge is power."
Davis entered West Point later in life and graduated 23rd in a class of After this he served under Colonel Zachary Taylor and he was assigned to escort Chief Black Hawk to prison in