{"product_id":"new-york-state-history-freedom-change-rt-script-mini-readers","title":"New York State History | Freedom and Change RT Script and Mini Readers | Grades 3-5","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreedom and Change in New York: Slavery, Abolition, Seneca Falls, and Civil War is a Grade 4 New York State History Reader’s Theater + Mini Reader resource designed for differentiated social studies instruction. Students explore how New Yorkers challenged unequal rights through abolition, women’s rights organizing, primary-source language, and Civil War support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudents learn that freedom and rights did not arrive all at once. 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