1. S EPT 14 L EARNING T ARGET : I CAN UNDERSTAND HOW A MERICA R EBUILT AFTER THE C IVIL W AR Opener: Power Write (2 min) Open your books to 55 and Mrs. Oleson is going to read this opening to you. You will have two min. to respond in your reaction to how you would have felt about what happened in the Civil War. POWER WRITING TIME IS SILENT and CONTINUOUS WRITING Task Vocabulary- in groups by playing cards Page 59- “Cause and Effect” and “Historians evaluate the Reconstruction”

2. G ROUPS Group 1: Segregation Group 2: federal Group 3: political Group 4: social Group 5: Economic Group 6: Reconstruct/reconstruction

3. G ROUP A SSIGNMENT Find out the meaning of your word Write a definition in your own words Create a visual representation for your word Something that shows the meaning of the word Create a “clue” to help remember word’s meaning A word or short phrase Present to class Explain meaning of the word and present visual representation and clue

4. C LOSURE Answer the following prompt with atleast 2 pieces of text based evidence from the reading. “Was the Reconstruction Successful”? DO your self evaluation Score on learning target from pirate ship (so just a number) Summary- “Today I learned…”