Civil War

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María Paulina Gutiérrez. September 2014.
Civil War
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Civil War for 5th grade students.

• Objective (s) Students will be able to
• Recognize important events previous to the Civil
  War.
• Learn significant events that occurred during
  the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865.
• The heroes and main characters of the Civil War.
• Discuss the consequences of the Civil War.
• They will learn all these through a series of
  dynamic and fun activities like watching a video
  and playing a trivia game.

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Anticipatory Set.

• During the transition time, the teacher will say
  to the students the following we will now watch
  a short video about slavery
• During the History class, the teacher will put a
  short video which shows the time period after the
  American revolution, specially focusing in
  slavery. After the video, we will begin a
  discussion on the students opinion about slavery
  and make a pros and cons chart.
• On the map of the United States, with the help of
  the teacher, we would mark the states that are
  pro slavery and the states that are against
  slavery.
• At this point the teacher will explain the
  meaning of the word abolitionist and make a
  connection to the subject we are about to review.
  
• Link to the video https//www.youtube.com/watch?v
  HJT4j9zSDlAof

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Input

• These are some of the concepts the student will
  have to learn and will begin the class with the
  following information
• The Southern slave states individually declared
  their secession from the United States and formed
  the Confederate States of America, known as the
  "Confederacy" or the "South. They grew to
  include eleven states, but were never recognize
  by a foreign country.
• The eleven states of the deep south were
  Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana Mississippi,
  South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina,
  Tennessee and Virginia.

Confederate States Flag.
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Input.

• The war began with the firing on Fort Sumter,
  April 12, 1861.
• The Confederate States wanted to preserve
  slavery, states rights, and political liberty
  for whites.
• The President of the U.S was Abraham Lincoln,
  from the Republican party, opposed the expansion
  of slavery into U.S territories.
• The abolitionist was a movement who wanted to end
  slavery whether formal or informal.

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Input.

• The Confederate States economy was based in
  cotton plantations, and needed slavery in order
  to maintain it.
• King Cotton was a slogan used by the Confederate
  in hopes of gaining support from France and
  Britain.
• The Underground Railroad was a network of secret
  routes and safe houses used by slaves to gain
  freedom, with the aid of abolitionist.

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Input

• The Union soon controlled the border states and
  formed a naval blockade that crippled the
  shouthern economy.
• Robert E. Lee was a Confederate General and
  leader.
• Ulysses S. Grant commanded the Unions army.

Portrait of Ulysess S. Grant.
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Input

• Important battles Battle of Antietam, Battle of
  Fort Sumter, Battle of Gettysburg.
• With the Siege of Petersburg the Confederate,
  were surrounded by Union soldiers, forcing Lee
  and his soldiers to surrendered.
• After four years of combat the Confederate
  collapsed.

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Civil War
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Modeling.
The teacher will have a poster with a big map of
the United States all showing the Union and
Confederate States.
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Guided Practice.
The teacher will review the facts from the
previous class with this map, like a graphic
journey of the Civil War, so the students can see
what happened and where it did happened, all
this the students help.
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Independent practice.
The teacher will explain the following activity
to the children They would form groups of three
and they will choose a name for the group. The
name has to be related to the civil war, for
example The Lincoln Team or The Gettysburg
Team. After they formed the teams, the teacher
will explain the rules for Civil War Trivia.
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Civil War Trivia.

• As a team they will choose 1 of the 4 categories.
  Every category has different points.
• The category that has the least points are the
  easiest questions, the ones with the most points
  have difficult questions.
• The team will earn as many points as they choose,
  if they answer correctly.
• They can only talk and discuss amongst their team
  mates.
• Students can review their notes during the game,
  but can not answer a question reading from the
  notes. Questions have to be answer in their own
  words.
• Each team takes turn answering questions, if a
  team is unable to answer, the fellow team, that
  raises their hand first, could steal the points
  if they answer the question correctly.
• No mockery or down talk is allowed.
• The team with the most points will have 3 extra
  points, the second team will have two extra
  points, and the team who has the least points
  will have one extra point for the final exam.

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Civil War Trivia.
The teacher will have the following display of
flashcards on the blackboard. Under each
flashcard are the question referring to their
category. There will be three flashcard for each
point.
Heroes and Main characters.
Geography
Who, What, Where and When?
Miscellaneous
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25
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Assesment.

• The teacher will hand to the student a blank map
  of the United States with the states border and
  name.
• Draw with red the Confederate States and with
  blue the Union States.
• Each student will have to name 5 events that
  occured during the Civil War and mark where it
  happeneded, and who where the heroes or main
  characters of that event. Also a brief summary of
  the event.
• Extra points could be earn if they also write the
  date of that event, month and year.

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Blank map of the U.S in 1861
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Closure.

• For the closing activity the teacher will ask
  each student, what was their favorite or most
  interesting event, and their favorite heroe from
  the Civil War as to why they chose it.
• We will also have a discussion about what
  consequences had the Civil War on America.
• And a final discussion on their thoughts of a
  possible Civil War in recent day United States
  and what could be the reason for it.

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References.

• www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar
• http//delta.cs.vt.edu/civil
• http//www.patriottoursnyc.com.
• www.history.com
• www.wikipedia.org.
• www.americanhistory.about.com
• The complete idiots guide to American History.
  Fifth Edition. Alan Axelrod.