Civil War Adventures

Introduction

Welcome: This a five-day lesson on fifth-grade Social Studies, American History, and the topic of The Civil War.

Description: It's my pleasure to provide important facts about our American History around the world. This WebQuest is a sprightly way four our fifth-grade students to learn the concepts of the American Civil War. This unit is five days to help enhance the learning of different people and facts based on state standards in Social Studies.

  • Civil War Facts Essential Questions
  • The American Civil War was known as? What year was this war fought?
  • How can you know the different states of the Union and Confederate states?

Grade Level: 5th grade

Curriculum: Social Studies

Key Vocabulary: Union, Independence, Confederate, Proclamation, Emancipation, Government, Survival

 

Task

In this lesson strategies for integrating Language Arts, consist of having students to write an answer challenging questions to their knowledge after reading the textbook and taking notes.

Strategies for teaching applicable Social Studies vocabulary is to let students read the vocabulary words before reading the text this help our students to get a better understanding of what the word means when reading.

Five day Lesson

Monday (Who am I)

Materials: Paper, Pencils, textbook

You will be able to complete a worksheet on what you have learned from your notes. You will be able to match important people to the correct task they completed during the Civil War (Worksheet).

Tuesday (Map Search)

Materials: Pencil, Paper, textbook

You will map read and identify states. Then you will draw a simple map of your own with your own personal states. When finishing with the map you will compare and contrast to some of the people from the Civil War.

Wednesday (Journal) American Soldiers Writing

Materials: Journals, pencils, tablets, paper

You will be able to write on the American Civil War soldiers and the task they completed during the war. Then you will create pictures to go with your journal writing.

Thursday (Historical Building)

Materials: Poster broads, Pencil, Textbook

You will be able to explore 5 major events during the Civil War, then start on poster broads for Friday's presentation. If you don't complete posters take them home to finish.

Friday (Poster Presentation)

Materials: Poster broads, Journals

Students will present a presentation on expressing their opinion relating to the Civil War.

Differentiation: Teacher is able to use key vocabulary words in different ways so, each student could get a clear understanding of the meaning.

Split groups into compatible levels if necessary

If students have trouble with writing they could use their assign computer to help with spell check etc.

Process

Process

  1. You will map the year the Civil War was fought
  2. Define Emancipation and Proclamation
  3. Answer challenging questions of people of the Civil War
  4. Draw map of different states, people, and events
  5. Name the President during the Civil War

Sources ( Newspaper)

•    The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - The Eagle was an important newspaper that covered both national and regional news. This archive is searchable and can also be browsed by date.

•    Chronicling America - This Library of Congress maintained website contains multiple newspapers from the Confederate and Union states. Over 1400 newspapers are in the archive, but not all are from the Civil War era. Some titles include Memphis Appeal (1857-1886), Chatanooga Rebel (1862-1865), New York Sun (1859-1916), andNew York Daily Tribune (1842-1866).

•    Harper's Weekly - This was a highly popular newspaper during the Civil War. The site is searchable and in chronological order with thumbnails of the front pages.

•    Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865) - This newspaper was published from the Confederate capital and has digitized 1300+ issues.

•    Secession-Era Editorials - This site contains editorials from newspapers in the 1850s. Includes events like Harper's Ferry, Dred Scott, John Brown, and more.

•    Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave Advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.

  1. What country the Civil War was fought
  2. What year did the Civil War begin
  3. The Civil War was fought mostly in what state? Southern or Northern?
  4. What year were the slaves free?
  5. Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?

     

Bonus !!! 

Can you find on the map the states under the Union states and color them green while color purple for the Confederate states?

Evaluation

Starts Begin 1 Developed 2 Qualified 3 Score
Name the President during the war? Include the year this President was elected You have completed none of the tasks You have completed one or two of the task You have completed all the task correctly Number of tasks completed

What year the Civil War started? Who attacked the U.S. Union Military?

 You have completed none of the tasks You have completed one or two of the task You have completed all the task correctly Number of tasks completed

What names were given to the Amry from the North?

What names were given to the people from the South? 

 You have completed none of the tasks You have completed one or two of the task You have completed all the task correctly Number of tasks completed
Name all the Confederate states? Who was the leader of the Union Army? Who free the slaves? You have completed 1 of the task You have completed two or more of the task You have completed all the task correctly Number of tasks completedd

 

Conclusion

  1. What did each of you learn from this Unit? (Wait for response)
  2. Will I give you some cues?
  3. Did the war have any leaders?
  4. Did Davis Jefferson lead the Confederacy?
  5. Which state had lots of farming?
  6. Who led the Union

In the next unit we will ask four questions:

  1. Name the year the Emancipation Proclamation took place?
  2. Who was General Robert E. Lee?
  3. The Civil war was known for what?
  4. Who was considered the President of the South?

If you would like to learn more, there are other sources

Books

To begin, the Walsh Library has considerable number of book titles in our collection that are both primary and secondary sources on the American Civil War as well as slavery. To see what books we have, conduct a book search with keywords such as civil war AND diary, etc.

 

Credits

Newspapers

•    The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - The Eagle was an important newspaper that covered both national and regional news. This archive is searchable and can also be browsed by date.

•    Chronicling America - This Library of Congress maintained website contains multiple newspapers from the Conferate and Union states. Over 1400 newspapers are in the archive, but not all are from the Civil War era. Some titles include:Memphis Appeal (1857-1886),Chatanooga Rebel (1862-1865),New York Sun (1859-1916), andNew York Daily Tribune (1842-1866).

•    Harper's Weekly - This was a highly popular newspaper during the Civil War. The site is searchable and in chronological order with thumbnails of the front pages.

•    Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865) - This newspaper was published from the Conferate capital and has digitized 1300+ issues.

•    Secession-Era Editorials - This site contains editorials from newspapers in the 1850s. Includes events like Harper's Ferry, Dred Scott, John Brown, and more.

•    Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.

Thanks to these Newspapers for providing these sources

 

Author Biography

Lakrystal Williams

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I am a student at Grand Cayon University which Im pursuing my goal as a teacher