1. Tuesday, 2/18 Please pick-up a yellow warm-up sheet and drop-off last week’s green sheet and the questions from Glory. It is April 1865. The Civil War is over. You are the President. Answer the following question: What are the challenges you face now that the war is over?

2. Closer – Tuesday, 2/18 Write the following statement on your sheet. Fill-in the blanks with your own idea. An example follows Reconstruction is like _____________, because _______________________. Reconstruction is like my bedroom, because it didn’t take long to make it messy, but it will take a long time to clean!

4. Previous Semester’s Slides Pull from these to modify for the current semester

5. Wednesday, 10/02 What are two questions that you have about Reconstruction? Write them down and be prepared to share them during our review.

6. When You Finish Your Test Please do the following when you are finished: Review your test – did you shade in the bubbles and answer all questions? Bring your test up to the desk. Pick-up a Unit map, laminated map and worksheet for the next unit. Please be quiet and respectful while others finish their test.

7. Wednesday, 10/02 – Pd. 1 only Get in your groups and start working on your review poster. You will have until 7:40 am to finish it. Supplies are on the spare teacher desk.

8. Tuesday, 10/01 Pick-up a Reconstruction review sheet and complete both sides. Radical Reconstruction Rules! End Reconstruction NOW!

9. Reconstruction Unit Test Matching/Multiple Choice – 27 questions on computer form (make sure you have read the textbook!) Short Answer – 10 questions (based on primary documents) Linking Terms – two terms that you need to use in one sentence that shows your understanding. Extended Answers – 1 for CP/2 for Honors

10. Closer Tuesday, 10/01 Create one sentence for each pair of terms below to accurately show how they are connected: Disenfranchisement and Poll Taxes Presidential Reconstruction and Plantation Class Leniency and Radical Republicans

11. How successful was Reconstruction? Give evidence to support your answer Closer Monday, 9/30

12. Monday, 9/30 Please pick-up a yellow warm-up sheet and drop-off last week’s green sheet. Pick-up a worksheet titled “Document B” Read through the testimony and analyze the cartoon, then answer the four questions. Use your notes and textbook to help you.

13. Closer Monday, 9/30 Summarize our lesson today – Write the following statements... “What I know about Presidential Reconstruction” “What I know about Radical Reconstruction”

14. Friday, 9/27 Please open your notebook to your yellow Unit Learning Map – We’re Organizing!

15. Closer – 9/27: Rank the Plans! Make a scale like the one below Easy on Hard on The South the South Identify and explain where you would note the two plans (Johnson and Radical Republicans of Congress)

16. Thursday 9/26 Please pick up “The Road to Freedom” cartoon excerpt and highlighter (if you need one). Read through the cartoon and highlight parts of the comic (words or pictures) that show that the Freedmen are not equal to Whites during Reconstruction.

17. Closer – 9/26 Write an commercial jingle for a local Freedmen’s Bureau Office that illustrates what they could offer to the freed slaves of the region. (to “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) Do you need a job or food? Home or clothes? Are you scared? The Freedmen’s Bureau can help you – We will be your friend!

18. Wednesday, 9/25 Pick-up a small sheet with quotes on it. For each quote, identify who might have said it and why it might have been stated. (it may not be a specific person)

19. “The Yankee freed you. Now let the Yankee feed you.” “I felt like a bird out of a cage. Amen. Amen.” “We have turned loose 4 million slaves without a …cent in their pockets.” “White men must manage the South.” “There is nothing else I know anything about except managing a plantation.”

20. Slave Narrative: Fountain Hughes

21. Three Questions to Answer About Fountain Hughes What freedoms did he experience? What limitations did he experience? What might be Fountain’s opinion of Reconstruction? How might Fountain be biased?

22. Closer 9/25 – Text Messages Write one text message regarding the start of Reconstruction for each of the following groups: – Plantation Owner to Plantation Owner, – Poor White to Poor White, and – Freedman to Freedman

23. Tuesday, 9/24 Using the reading, “A New Birth of Freedom: The Day of Jubilee” write a post-war diary entry from the perspective of either a Southern White Land Owner or an Emancipated Slave. Think about how individual would react to the end of slavery.

24. “War/Peace” Using your own words and in a paragraph, explain the meaning of this activity and how it relates to the Reconstruction Period.