Grade Level: Fifth Grade
Unit Title: Civil War and Reconstruction / Timeframe Needed for Completion:4 weeks
Grading Period:4th
Big Idea/Theme:Vying for Power
Understandings:
- Conflict and/or war may influence a nation’s political, social, and economic development.
- Conflict may result in compromise.
- Battles influence the direction and outcome of wars.
- War can transform society.
Essential Questions:
- Analyze the factors that led to the Civil War.
- Evaluate how the Civil War led to changes the United States during the Reconstruction Period?
5.H.1.3 Analyze the impact of major conflicts, battles, and wars on the development of our nation through Reconstruction.
5.G.1.2 Explain the positive and negative effects of human activity on the physical environment of the United States, past and present.
Essential Skills/Vocabulary:
Free state, slave state, fugitive, Underground Railroad, secede, civil war, emancipate, assassinate, reconstruction, and freedom
Unit 3 Lesson 1 & 2of Harcourt SS Text:
Skim & Scan pages 114, 115, & 120
Sequencing pages 115, 117, 121, & 122
Main Idea & Details page116
Cause & Effect pages 117, 120, & 123
Make Inferences page 121 / Assessment Task Options:
*Write an article for either a Northern or a Southern newspaper, as they might have appeared on the day after the presidential election of 1860.
*Have students research the names, dates, and outcomes of Civil War battles that took place in North Carolina.
*Write an interview of a family from the north or the south describing how their lives were different after the Civil War. Include specific details about what changed and what caused those changes.
*Create a product (puppet show, editorial, interview, etc.) that argues why Kentucky should secede or shy it should stay in the Union and find a peaceful solution to the slavery issue.
*Shade a map of the United States during this time showing free and slave states.
Integration Opportunities & Additional Resources:
Destination Freedom (on grade level reader from Harcourt SS Textbook resources – also available online with audio capabilties)
Harcourt Trophies Literature Book (Black Frontiers – History of African American Heroes in the Old West)
pays for our subscription (Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad Level S) (Running for Freedom Level T) (Up From Slavery Level X) (Abraham Lincoln: From Log Cabin to the White House Level Z)
(The Women of Keene in the Civil War [2min:12sec]) (Belle Boyd: Legendary Spy of the Civil War [3min:50sec]) (Keene and the 6th NH Regiment in the Civil War [7min:59sec]) (Keene in the Civil War, and the Siege at Vicksburg [2min:33sec]) (Keene in the Civil War, the Battle at Antietam [5min:33sec]) (Keene in the Civil War – The Siege of Petersburg [2min:33sec]) (Keene in the Civil War-Battle of Gettysburg [3min:21sec]) (General Howell [3min:41sec]) (The Ghost of Mary Surratt [4min:03sec]) (Abraham Lincoln [2min:03sec])
Smart Board Downloads (North vs. South) (Slavery Part One Question Set) (George Washington and Abe Lincoln Comparisons) (The Civil War [Shultz]) (Segregation and Slavery [Senteo Question Set]) (Slavery, Part Two [1.44MB file]) (Black History)
primary sources (art/The Civil War) (art/PBS: The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam in 1655) (art/PBS: Interior of a Slave Ship) (art/PBS: Fredrick Douglass) (letters/ Banneker’s Letter to Jefferson) (documents/ PBS: Founding of Pennsylvania Abolition Society) (drawings/PBS: Plan of a ship for transporting slaves) (maps/PBS: The British Colonies [slavery])
subscription needed (Fugitive Slave Laws) (Slavery) (Amistad)
Harcourt SS Text Resources: North Carolina Adventures game either on CD-Rom or online. Students use their knowledge of U.S. history to find missing historical documents that have been stolen by the notorious “Erase Sir.” Throughout the game, they will review what they have learned about the impact of wars and conflicts. Explain that the “Help” buttons in the game will refer them to pages in their textbooks if they need additional information.
Novel options:
Shades of Grey
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Fig
Ghost Soldier
Ghost Cadet