Using the War as a Selling Point:
Discovering a Local Community during the Civil War through Ads and Artifacts
(Grades 3-5)
Katie
Hickey Snyder
Summer
Fellowship 2009
Lesson 5
Students choose an
artifact to write a historical fiction story.
Students will work individually on a historical fiction piece
that involves the chosen artifact.
Procedures
Students
individually write a historical fiction piece which incorporates use of the
artifact they chose to explore in lesson 4.
Day 1:
As a prewriting activity, students individually complete a
graphic organizer story organizer to lay out important elements of story.
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/GO_pdf/story_organzier.pd
Day 2:
As a prewriting activity, students individually complete a
graphic organizer about character traits of the main character who interacts
with the artifact in story
Girl Character:
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/GO_pdf/character_map.pdf
Boy Character:
Days 3-5:
Using story organizer and character trait organizer, students
individually write a historical fiction piece which incorporates the artifact
chosen in lesson 4.
Upon completion of individual stories, a class book can be
compiled, using the pictures of artifacts and ads as illustrations.
Assessment
Teacher assesses the final story using rubric found at the
following site:
http://www.rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Rubric number: 1769053
Ties National Primary Source
Tie to similar national primary source artifacts found at the
Smithsonian can be located at the following website:
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/collections.html