Lesson Overview
The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political, educational, and social opportunities in addition to discrimination during this period.
Essential Question
How did life as a freed man change during the Reconstruction period in South Carolina?
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iPad/MacBook integration recommendations have been included.
If you do have ipads/Macbooks for every child, create QR codes for each of the links and the students can scan them to get back and forth between the websites.
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- 8.4.CX Evaluate South Carolinians’ struggle to create an understanding of their post-Civil War position within the state, the country, and the world.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the former planter class, African Americans, women, and others adjusted to, gained, lost, and/or regained position and status during Reconstruction. This indicator was also written to foster inquiry into how South Carolina worked with a stronger federal government and expanding international markets.
- I Inquiry-Based Literacy Standards
- RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- W.MCC.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
- W.MCC.3.1 Gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experience to write narratives that:
- W.MCC.3.1.b engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters;
- W.MCC.3.1.e use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events;
- W.MCC.3.1.d use dialogue, pacing, manipulation of time, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters;
- W.MCC.3.1.h provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
- W.MCC.3.1 Gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experience to write narratives that:
- W.MCC.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
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