Civil War By Kevin Underwood Grade Level: 8

Goal The goal is to educated the students with several different resources like movies, reports, and activities.

America Heritage & People in Societies Time, Continuity, and Change

Activities Students develop time lines of various events that took place during the Civil. Students create a museum exhibit about life during the Civil War. Watch the movie, “Gettysburg.”

Activities Students learn about battles, write diaries using slang, and create biographies of women. Discuss the causes of the war, and discuss the two leaders of the North and South.

Websites war/civilwar.htmhttp:// war/civilwar.htm

People in Societies Culture

Activities Students will investigate the music of the Civil War, and how songs were used to arouse emotion. Groups of four will make a Civil War recipe. Define the slang words of Civil War.

Activities Students learn about the Underground Railroad. Explore the symbolism of the flags, and create flags of their own.

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World Interactions People, Places, and Environment Global Connections

Activities Read an article about an African American soldier serving the Union Army. Students research how soldiers combat boredom today and during the Civil War. Read soldiers’ letters.

Activities Students research cooperatively a female Civil War spy, then present a news broadcast about her contributions. Read a doctor’s diary, and students discuss the practice of medicine.

Websites ocs.htmlhttp://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwd ocs.html

Citizenship Rights And Responsibility Power, Authority, & Governance Civil Ideals and Practices

Activities Students study transcriptions of articles from two Augusta county newspapers to see how white Southerners defended the institution of slavery.

Activities Students explore primary source documents explaining the causes of the Civil War, and take on a role of a person living during this era. Watch the series: North and South

Activities Students do a mock trial of Jefferson Davis who is charged for treason after the war is over. Investigate Lincon’s Assisination.

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Democratic Processes Individuals, Groups, and Institutions Civic Ideals and practices

Activites Students to do a book report one general. Discuss the importance of the “Emancipation Proclamation.” Compare and contrast Lincoln’s drafts and final version of Gettsyburg Address.

Activities Do a time line of General Lee life. Read an article about a prisoner exchange between the Union and Confederate armies arranged by President Lincoln and Stephan Alexander.

Websites warres.htmhttp:// warres.htm civilhome.htmlhttp:// civilhome.html

Decision making and Resources Power, Authority, and governance Production, Distribution, and consumption

Activities Rewrite a different ending to the War. Plot and map the order of the battles. As General Lee, strategize your movements in the Gettysburg Battle.

Activities Play “ Civil War: A Simulation of Civilian and Soldiers Life during the American Civil war.” Watch “Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom.”

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Science, Technology, and Society

Activities Students write and decode messages using Morse code, as Civil War soldiers might have done. Show how to fire and reload a replica gun during the Civil War period.

Activities Students make a display on transportation during the war period. Students study a chart showing Civil War deaths and fill out the worksheet included. Watch: Touring Civil War Batterfields

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Conclusion The activities and websites provide several different ways to the Civil War. The End