Your Name ______

Submit this rubric the box in class stapled or paper clipped to your final product

Reconstruction TEST Project!

Directions: Using your past knowledge of the Reconstruction timeline, class notes, or research from the internet, you will be creating a TEST PROJECT to go with your Goal 3 Civil War bubble test. This project will count for 60 points of the Goal 3 Test. You only need to choose ONE of the options below.

Use Microsoft Publisher software, any other software you think works better, or a posteror your own creative solution to create this final product. Today is the only day you have in the library to work on this. What you don’t finish is homework. This final product is DUE BY FRIDAY AT 3PM with this rubric. Late credit will apply if turned in after. Do not email it to me!

The rubric for this product is simple if you follow the directions: (below to be completed by me)
_____Turned in on time: 10 points (late 5 points)
_____Included all concept or terms requested (highlight, bold or underline each in some way): 25 points for including all 5 correctly (-5 points for each concept not included)
_____Creative, authentic and created with effort (10 if yes, 5 if no)
_____Shows understanding of each concept (15 points for Super job/10 points for average job/5 points for below average job)
Your total project points: ______+ (bubble test maximum 40 points)______= ______on FINAL GOAL 3 TEST GRADE / OPTION #1:
Write a
SONG, POEM, CHEER that may have been written to inspire the Radical Republicans and their efforts at Reconstruction. You must include the following in your song, poem, or cheer that shows your understanding:
  1. 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
  2. Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Thaddeus Stevens
  4. Freedman’s Bureau
  5. Federal troops in the South

OPTION #2:
Write a NEWSLETTERwith various articles detailing the timeline of Reconstruction. You must write it from either the viewpoint of a Northern or Southern newspaper.
Include reports about the following in a way that shows your understanding:
  1. 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
  2. Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Compromise of 1877
  4. Lincoln’s Assassination
  5. President Johnson’s efforts to block Radical Republicans views
/ OPTION #3:
Make aPROTEST PAMPHLETprotesting the efforts of the South to end Reconstruction. Show your level of understanding by detailing WHY you are protesting the following:
  1. Black codes
  2. Grandfather clauses
  3. Carpetbaggers/scalawags
  4. The system of sharecropping
  5. Compromise of 1877
/ OPTION #4:
Write a minimum 250 word DIARY ENTRYthat describes the feelings from the perspective of one of the following individuals:
  1. a carpetbagger
  2. a scalawag
  3. a freed slave
  4. a Radical Republican
  5. a member of the Democratic Party in the “Solid South”
In your diary entry you should include at least 5 events or laws that occurred during Reconstruction. You pick which ones. You should speak of them in a way that shows your level of understanding.