Urbana - Champaign During the Civil War
Fellowship Lesson 2009
Deb Heater
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Lesson
1:
Students will begin to understand the extent that Illinois was involved in the
Civil War
Abstract: In
this lesson students will begin by assessing prior knowledge of the Civil War through
a KWL chart. An introduction of
IllinoisÕ part in the Civil War will be presented through a power point and, at
the conclusion, students will have mapped out the Military Camps and Prisoner
of War camps in the state of Illinois.
Essential
Questions:
- To what
extent did Illinois contribute to the Civil War effort?
- What
was some of the ways that they helped in the military arena?
Assessment:
Students will be evaluated on their participation during the power point as
well as their completion of the map marking out Illinois military camps and
prisoner of war camps.
Setting
the Purpose:
Students will assess their prior knowledge and then move on to find out
more information about how Illinois participated in the Civil War. This
knowledge will help them later in the unit as they create biological sketches
of Civil War soldiers.
Procedure:
- Pass
out blank copies of a KWL chart.
Ask students to fill in what they know about IllinoisÕ participation in
the Civil War. Ask them to fill
out what they would like to know about Illinois participation.
- Hand
out a Power Point worksheet so that as the teacher is presenting the
introductory power point, students can fill in the blanks.
- On the
second page of the power point work sheet will be a map of Illinois. Students should fill in the Military
camps with a blue pencil or marker and prisoner of war camps with a red pencil
or marker.
- Explain
to students the project we will be working on the rest of the week and what is
expected. Have copies of rubric on
overhead so that students can see expectations.
Analysis
of primary sources:
- Quotes from Confederate war POWÕs.
- Photographs of Civil War camps.
Ties to
National Primary source: Various information about Civil War.
List of
Materials and Resources:
- KWL
Chart
- Power
point worksheet
- Illinois
map, blue pencils, red pencils
Attachments:
- KWL
chart
- Power
Point worksheet
- Illinois
map
- Power
point