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Unit Title: Civil War
Duration: 8 weeks
Author: Thea Krumme PS 64
Audience: 5th Grade
Stage 1- Desired Results
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5 Grade Year focus: Movement and Change
Essential Question: How did Manifest Destiny change and shape American History?
Unit Essential Question: What is conflict? What causes it and how is it resolved?
What is worth dying for?
Is it right to break a law if you feel it’s wrong?
Standards: History of the United States and New York 1.1,1.2 1.3, 1.4
Geography: 3.1 Economics: 4.1 Citizenship and Gov’t: 5.1,5.2,5.3,5.4
Understandings:
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The causes of the Civil War were many
and built up over time
Conflict is complicated and there are many
ways to resolve it through compromise and
war
There were political, geographic and
economic differences between the N and S
War affects many people in different ways/
understand different points of view and
perspectives
There was a resistance to slavery
United we stand, divided we fall
The civil war was the deadliest of
American wars. It pinned family against
family, brother against brother
Reconstruction and recovery looks
different on paper than it did in real life
Essential Questions:
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Did the constitution really mean, “all men
were created equal?
 What were the causes of the Civil War?
 Who were the important people influencing
the war?
 What is an abolitionist? How did they fight
for their cause?
 What voices are not heard in the Civil War?
Slave, woman, children, free men, immigrants
testimonies
 What was life like as a soldier?
 What were the advantages and disadvantages
each side had fighting the war?
 What were the fugitive laws?
 What was life like after the War?
 What laws were passed to end slavery?
 How did the emancipation Proclamation
change the war?
Knowledge: (What we should know)
Skills:
Know the Causes of the Civil War:
1. Struggle for states rights and power
2. Slave states vs free states and new
territories
3. Politics: laws passed-Fugitive Act, Dred
Scott Case, Tariffs on British goods and
not on northern factory goods
4. Resistance to slavery
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Rebellions: Nat Turner 1831, John
Brown 1859
5. Abe Lincoln is elected President
6. 11 southern States secede from the Union
Create a time line of important events, places
and people of the time
1820 Missouri compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act: Bloody Kansas
Lincoln Douglas debates
Emancipation Proclamation
Important battles, turning points of the war
Confederate states, Union States
Plan for reconstruction changes it caused and
struggles faced
Analyze a variety of primary sources and
identify different perspectives draw
conclusions and make connections to other
texts, sources, or ideas
Identify the cause and effect of events
Compare and contrast: North and South, life
style, economics and political philosophy
Create and Map the US 1820 that reflect the
politics of the time: interpret maps graphs,
charts and visuals
Develop big ideas around themes that arise
from this time period and support them with
evidence
Determine different points of view from texts
and lyrics
Write informative and expository pieces
Ask authentic questions
Make predictions and check their theories
Determine important and unimportant details
Make connections form the time period to
current events today.
Form opinions and support them with
evidence
Stage 2- Assessment Evidence
Activities:
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Assessment:
Brake up the kids into north and south character
roles
Debate over the Dred Scott case
Write historical fiction response around the battle of
Ft. Sumter
Wrtie a letter home to your family as a soldier
describing the war and the conditions you are facing.
Listen and Analyze music and lyrics from the Civil
War
Analyze primary sources on a carousel
Watch Glory: analyze, compare, connect what
you’ve learned to the story
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Pre and post vocabulary tests
Social studies interactive notebooks
Writing about reading content fiction and
non-fiction using RAFT
Group and individual projects
Vocabulary
secession, seceded
abolitionist, abolish
confederate
Union
emancipation
illegal
hideous
conductor
proclamation
Read Alouds
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rebel
crusade
hardtack
compromise
contraband
rally
patriotic
draft
tariff
reconstruction
fugitive
discrimination
Primary sources
Bull Run
Nettie’s Trip South
Pink and Say
Henry’s Box
You wouldn’t want to be a Civil War Soldier
Blue and Grey- letters from soldiers
Webb Sites:
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/videos
www.eduplace.com/kids/hmss05/
Thea Krumme PS 64 Literacy Coach
People to know
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S Grant
Robert E. Lee
Clara Barton
Dred Scott
Fredrick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Name __________________________________________________
May Word Work
Must Know Words
Words Their Way
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Content Words
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
compromise
tariff
secede
secession
rebel
hardtack
casualties
New words I am learning
emancipation
proclamation
conductor
contraband
draft
Union
Confederate
patriotic
rally
reconstruction
illegal
hideous
Crusade
fugitive
discrimination
Purpose of Music
 Create patriotic feelings
 Protest
 Tell a story
 To get people to join a cause
 To send a message
 To make fun of something
 To bring hope