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Students investigate the role of South Carolina in the Civil War. They write summaries in order to answer this and other essential questions. Students also explain in writing the effect of Reconstruction in the state.
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- 2nd Grade
Students participate in activities that introduce them to life during the Civil War and slavery in this unit. They study maps, the flags and life accounts.
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- 5th - 12th Grade
Students examine Civil War battlefields in Arkansas. They read primary source documents written by Arkansans. They discover what life was like during the Civil War as well.
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- 5th - 8th Grade
Students discuss political, social, and personal issues relating to the Civil War from various perspectives using internet sources. Students write various selections from Civil War characters' point of view.
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- 5th - 6th Grade
Students choose a novel based on the Civil War. They discuss the roles of the members of a Literature Circle and then participate in various discussion and writing activities following the novel they choose.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students use the internet to gather information on the Civil War. They create a timeline of events and write a newspaper article about one of them. They research an important figure of the war and write a biography.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students realize the roles ordinary citizens played in making history, both men and women during the civil war. They learn to analyze what historians can learn from primary source material generated by average citizens. And, to learn about events that were critical to the outcome of the civil war and its meaning to the American history.
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- 8th Grade
Students compare the lives of Northern and Southern soldiers during the Civil War and identify the major military participants of the Civil War from the Union and the Confederacy.
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- 5th - 12th Grade
Students study the effects of the Civil War in the student's local community or area and to study how the people were affected. They compose a paper compiling results of their research. They prepare PowerPoint presentations.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students research a human aspect of the Civil War and prepare a written report, skit, project board, or computer slide-show about their findings. They focus on how the war affected families who had members on opposing sides of the conflict.
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