Watch the video, "The Cause" and take notes on the class handout.
Read pages 415-416 in your History Alive! text and answer the six questions on the front of the Civil War Packet.
Secession: Slides 1-10
Review answers from Monday / Unit overview slide: slide 21
Watch "Secessionitis" (32:44-47:10) 15 min.
Discuss Views on Secession - Make T-Chart on views For/Against Secession (Jamboards linked on slide 5)
Fort Sumter: Slides 11-14
Watch video (47:11-52:09) 5 min.
Read linked article on slide 14 --> use to take notes about Ft. Sumter in your Civil War Guide
Kahoot! from Monday's work
Union vs. CSA: Slides 20-23
Read text pages 424-425
Newsela Article linked on slide 23: “Military Background of Union and Confederate Forces”
Bull Run & Women in War: Slides 24-25 (add details from the sources to the Key Events chart)
Read text pages 426-427
Watch video linked on slide 25 (4 min)
Choose a subject to investigate on the “Women in War” webpage & add notes to the appropriate section on your student notes doc
Kahoot! from Tue/Wed. work
Shiloh, Shenandoah, & Seven Days’ Battles: A Question of Leadership: Slides 26-29 (add details from the sources to the Key Events chart)
Read Newsela article linked on slide 26: “General Grant and the Battle of Shiloh” - Key event notes
Read Newsela article linked on slide 27: “Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign” - Key Event notes and Jackson's page
Read about the Peninsula Campaign using the link on slide 29 - Key event notes and McClellan's page
Video on "The Peninsula" - Ep. 2, Ch. 6 (5 min.)
Optional: Watch the video linked on slide 28 (12 min.)
Antietam & Fredericksburg
Read Slides 30-31
Read text pages 428-429, Ch. 21 "Antietam: A Bloody Affair" & fill in notes on Antietam & Fredericksburg
Video Episode 2, ch. 4 "Ironclads" (5 min.)
Read Newsela article linked on slide 32: “The Lack of an Industrial Base Hurt the South During the Civil War” (Add notes to T-Chart on "The Role of Industry in the Civil War")
Video Clip from Ken Burns: "The Arts of Death" (4 min.)
Read the second article linked on slide 32: “Innovations in Technology During the Civil War” (Add notes to the graphic organizer on Technology)
Read the 3 paragraphs under the section titled, “The New Realities of War” on page 429 of your History Alive! text and add notes under "Medicine" on the Technology graphic organizer
Video: Extreme History, Civil War
Kahoot! on Antietam & Fredericksburg; Industry & Technology
Catch-up time (20-30 min.)
Emancipation Proclamation & Chancellorsville: Slides 33-34
Video Clip: Ep. 2, ch. 9 (49:25-51:10)
Read text page 430: "The Emancipation Proclamation"
Video Clip: Ep. 3-4 "Beast Butler" (10:56-16:46) and Ep. 3-9 "The Higher Object" (9 min)
Read the summary of Chancellorsville linked on slide 34
Watch video link on slide 34 (9 minutes) Ep. 4-6 "Under the Shade of the Trees" - Chancellorsville
Complete graphic organizer on General Lee using slide 38
Siege of Vicksburg (slide 35) and The Battle of Gettysburg: (slides 36-37)
Vicksburg: Read text on slide 35 and pages 432-433 (Section 5) of your History Alive! book
Video clips on Vicksburg: 4-7 (6 min.) and 5-7 (3 min.)
Gettysburg: Read text pages 430-431
Video clip on Gettysburg: The Third Day (19 min.)
Massachusetts 54th at Fort Wagner: Slide 36
Video Clip: The 54th Massachusetts Infantry (3:14)
Read text pages 434-435 (Section 6)
Link on Massachusetts 54th linked on slide 36: https://www.thoughtco.com/battles-of-fort-wagner-2360930?utm_source=flipit&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=widgets&utm_content=www.thoughtco.com
Heroes of the war: Choose one or more of the 6 characters on the History.com link and add to your notes about African-Americans in the Civil War
Kahoot! Emancipation Proclamation, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Massachusetts 54th
Quiz on Block day
Total War and Surrender: Slides 40-42
Civil War Quiz #2
After the quiz, read the Newsela article linked on slide 41: “War, William Tecumseh Sherman-style”
Read text pages 435-437 (read through "Sherman's March Through Georgia")
Video Ep. 8, ch. 2&3 (13 min.)
Surrender: Video Episode 8. ch. 7 "I Want to See Richmond" (15 min.)
Text p. 437-439 "The War Ends" and "Touched by Fire"
Episode 8. ch. 8 (15 min.) "Appomattox"
Final Civil War Kahoot!
Begin Civil War Assessment: Brochure
Final Civil War Quiz
Brochure Work Day
Civil War Brochure Work Day
Civil War Brochure due on 5/21
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