What caused people in the North and the South to disagree during the middle 1800s? How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the North and South? In what ways did enslaved people protest against being held in slavery? What ways did Northerners and Southerners try to settle their disagreements during the early 1800s? What difficult decisions did Americans make in 1860 and 1861? Why was it difficult for many Americans to choose sides during the Civil War? In what ways did individual Americans make a difference during the war?
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Students will know the reasons for the Civil War and some of the key people involved. Students will be able to identify Union and Confederate states.
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Assessment tools include: Workbook pages from Harcourt Brace, worksheet on the slang terms used by the people of that era and then write a letter as a person in the Civil War relating their experience using some of those slang terms, an advertisement explaining the affects of the cotton gin on the buying and selling of cotton, a list of the differences between the North and South, chart explaining the difficult decision that people had in choosing sides in the war, speech written from different viewpoints on the Emancipation Proclamation, and the final activity will be making trading cards: one on a person and one on a battle or situation of the war.
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The students will be able to see the reasons the Civil War was fought other than the issue of slavery. They also will know and be able to discuss the key events of the Civil War dealing with people and events. The students will be doing individual work and work in groups: the North and South and then groups within the large group of North and South.
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This unit was based around the Social Studies text, Harcourt Brace, so many parts of it would be hard for anyone to use that is not using this series. However, the sites used and many of the projects the students do would be easy to do in any classroom. I used, Doug Salhi, my TTL teacher's trading card idea, and I used bits and pieces from the web using the Civil War home-page.
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slang worksheet; http://genie.esu10.k12.ne.us/~dmahalek/Slang.html Civil War home-page; http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ To see if you had relatives in the war; http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
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