MODULE 3
CORE TEXTS
Historical Account (Informational)
The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War, Jim Murphy
Novel (Literary)
The River Between Us, Richard Peck
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
Articles
Excerpt from “Civil War Medicine,” National Park Service (Handout 11A)
“Hospitals and Medical Knowledge,” Civil War Preservation Trust
“Slavery,” Britannica Kids
“The North and the South,” American Battlefield Trust
Film
The Civil War, Episode 1: “The Cause”, Ken Burns
Maps
Boundary Between the Union and the Confederacy, National Geographic
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790– 1860, Lincoln Mullen
Grand Tower, Illinois, Google Earth
Photography
Abraham Lincoln, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Seated and Holding His Spectacles and a Pencil, Alexander Gardner
Antietam, MD. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; Another View, Alexander Gardener
President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Near Antietam, Alexander Gardner
The President and General McClellan on the Battle-field of Antietam, Alexander Gardner
President Lincoln Visiting the Battlefield at Antietam , October, 1862, Alexander Gardner
The Floating Palace, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Poetry
“The Women Who Went to the Field,” Clara Barton (Handout 28B)
Website
“Civil War Casualties,” American Battlefield Trust
Videos
“America's Reliance on Slavery Grows with the Expansion of Cotton,” History.com (for best results, update browser)*
Ford Historic Model T, “Ford Model T—100 Years Later,” CarDataVideo
“What Caused the Civil War,” Virginia Historical Society
*History.com periodically changes the title of this video, but the content remains unchanged.
NOVEL:
The Boys War
NOVEL:
The River Between Us
MAJOR ASSESSMENTS
Focusing Question Tasks
Elements that Support Success on the EOM Task
Standards
1. Write an informative/explanatory paragraph that explains a factor that led to the start of the Civil War.
Demonstrate an understanding of the causes of the Civil War.
Identify differences in beliefs and needs between the North and South.
2. Write an opinion essay about whether boy soldiers were affected by fighting in the Civil War for better or worse.
Demonstrate an understanding of war’s impact.
Form an opinion and support it with reasons.
Use evidence and elaboration to support and explain reasons.
3. Write a journal entry from a character’s point of view, explaining reasons that support a character’s opinion.
Demonstrate an understanding of war’s impact.
Create reasons to support an opinion.
Use evidence and elaboration to support and explain reasons.
L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.b
4. Write an informative/explanatory paragraph that explains the meaning of an important analogy from The River Between Us.
Demonstrate an understanding of war’s impact.
Revise writing to clarify points.
RL.5.1, RL.5.4, RI.5.1, RL.5.4, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.9,
New-Read Assessments
Elements that Support Success on EOM
Standards
1. Read chapter 4 of The Boys’ War. Respond to multiple-choice questions using knowledge of context clues and author’s points, and answer several short-answer questions analyzing the similarities and differences in soldiers’ points of view.
Demonstrate understanding of using context clues to understand content-specific vocabulary.
Understand how experiences impact individuals’ points of view in different ways.
Explain how points are support by reasons and evidence.
RI.5.1, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.8,
2. Read an excerpt from chapter 6 of The River Between Us. Answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions comparing and contrasting varieties of English dialect.
Demonstrate an understanding of how characters’ backgrounds can be shown through speech.
3. Read an excerpt from chapter 10 of The River Between Us. Answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions explaining how a character’s point of view influences how events are told.
Demonstrate an understanding of war’s impact.
Demonstrate an understanding of how experiences shape a character’s point of view.
RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.6,
Socratic Seminars
Elements that Support Success on EOM
Standards
1. Explain the factors that led to the start of the Civil War.
Demonstrate an understanding of the conflicting beliefs and needs of the North and the South.
Use evidence to support points.
2. Explain the different roles, experiences, and perspectives of men and women during the Civil War.
Demonstrate un understanding of impact of war on different groups of people.
Summarize other’s opinions, reasons, and evidence.
Build on other’s perspectives on a topic.
SL.5.1, SL.5.2, SL.5.3, SL.5.6
EOM Task
Criteria for Success
Standards
Write an opinion essay in which you support your point of view about whether the Civil War impacted members of the Pruitt family in a mostly positive or mostly negative way. Use evidence from The River Between Us to develop two reasons. Elaborate on your evidence to support your reasons.
Demonstrate an understanding of war’s impact.
Form an opinion statement supported by two reasons.
Use evidence from The River Between Us.
Use elaboration to explain evidence.
RL.5.1, W.5.1, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.9.a,
L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.b
M3 Lessons 1-5 FQT 1: What factors led to the start of the Civil War?
Write an informative/explanatory paragraph that explains a factor that led to the start of the Civil War.
G5M3L4FQT.pdfM3 FQT 1
M3 Lessons 6-15 FQT 2: How did the Civil War impact boy soldiers?
Write an opinion essay about whether boy soldiers were affected by fighting in the Civil War for better or worse.
M3 Lessons 16-29 FQT 3:How did the Civil War impact girls and women?
Write a journal entry from a character’s point of view, explaining reasons that support a character’s opinion.
M3 Lessons 30-32 FQT 4: How did the Civil War impact free people of color in the South?
Write an informative/explanatory paragraph that explains the meaning of an important analogy from The River Between Us.