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Civil War Reading/Assignment Requirements
SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.
a. Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.
b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.
c. Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.
d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.
You must get every one of these items signed off by a teacher.
_____ Read The Civil War Begins, pages 164-169 in the textbook and complete corresponding notes sheet. Go over your notes sheet with a partner and prove/justify your answers. Then, check your work with the answer key and make corrections as needed. Glue the notes into your SS journal.
_____ Read Blue and Gray on pages 170-171. In your SS journal, create a Venn diagram with at least 3 similarities and 3 differences between the two soldiers. Go over your diagram with a partner and discuss why you included the facts/information that you put on the diagram.
_____ ReadA Nation at War, pages 176-181 in the textbook and complete the corresponding notes sheet. Go over your notes sheet with a partner and prove/justify your answers. Then, check your work with the answer key and make corrections as needed. Glue the notes into your SS journal.
_____ Read pages 182-183 to learn more about The Gettysburg Address. You also need to watch/listen to it at If you want/need more information, you may also want to check There are links to both of these websites on Ms. B’s page on the Social Studies page. In your SS journal, answer question 2 on page 183. Discuss what you wrote with a partner.
_____ Read The Human Face of War, pages 184-187 in the SS textbook. In your SS journal, answer questions 2-4 and question 7 on page 187. Discuss your answers with a partner.
_____ ReadCourageous Women on pages 188-189 in the SS textbook. Then, in your SS journal, write a one to two sentence tweet from each woman from their point of view about the Civil War. Share what you wrote with a partner.
_____ Read The War Ends, pages 190-193 in the textbook and complete the corresponding notes sheet. Go over your notes sheet with a partner and prove/justify your answers. Then, check your work with the answer key and make corrections as needed. Glue the notes into your SS journal.