Lesson 5: North vs. South
Goals and Objectives
Students will be able to actively participate by contributing at least one meaningful comment or question during an in class discussion about the causes of the Civil War.
California Content Standards
8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
Lesson Introduction
Students will do a brainstorm of the most important key events that led to up to the Civil War. After the brainstorming session, some students will be selected to share the events they picked with the class. This activity will access prior knowledge and prepare the students for the lesson.
Vocabulary
The vocabulary for this lesson will be the vocabulary for each previous lesson in the unit. By this point, each vocabulary term has been added to a foldable and can easily be reviewed just prior to the in class discussion.
Content Delivery
Content for this lesson has already been delivered in previous lessons. This lesson will deal strictly with student engagement and critical thinking as students discuss what they believed to be the mos important causes of the Civil War.
Student Engagement and Critical Thinking
Students will participate in a whole class discussion about what they believe were the most important events/causes in the coming of the Civil War. In order to ensure whole class participation, I will split the students into groups of 5. As a group, students will decide on the 10 most important events and causes in the coming of the war. Each group member will then take two of the chosen events/causes and become experts on how it contributed to the coming of the war. The groups will come together and discuss their findings with each other. Towards the end of class, the class will come together and discuss what each group chose as the key events in the coming of the war.
Each student will have to answer these questions about their two events:
What was the event?
Who were the major players?
What was the opinion of the North?
What was the opinion of the South?
What was the immediate consequence of the event?
Could the event have been avoided? If so, how?
Each student will have to answer these questions about their two events:
What was the event?
Who were the major players?
What was the opinion of the North?
What was the opinion of the South?
What was the immediate consequence of the event?
Could the event have been avoided? If so, how?
Demonstrated Learning
Progress monitoring through observation and questioning.
Students will turn in their individual answers to be graded for participation.
Students will turn in their individual answers to be graded for participation.
Lesson Closure
The class will decide upon the 5 most important events in the coming of the Civil War and the students will record those events in their notebooks.
What Came Before...
Students learned about the causes o the Civil war including the debate over slavery, the nation dividing, challenges to slavery, Lincoln's election, and Southern Secession.
What Came After...
Students will learn about the major battles and players of the Civil War.