January 11-14, 2010

 

 Monday- The students will read and answer the questions on the Unit 7 Pre-View.

 Tuesday- The students will read and discuss:“The War Begins” (Text p. 225), “Two Tears of Stalemate” (Text pp. 225-226), “Robert E. Lee” (Text p. 226),  “A New Kind of War”(Text p. 227),and  “Emancipation”(Text p. 227).

Wednesday- The students will:
Read and discuss- “The First Shot at Fort Sumter” (Text pp. 227-228)
Discuss the role South Carolina played in the new Confederate government.
Discuss where the Civil War began and the commanders of both forces.
Read and discuss- “Preparations for War” (Text pp. 228-229)
Read and discuss- “The Virginia Front” (Text p. 229)
Discuss the movement of the Confederate capital.
Read and discuss- “Invasion of Port Royal Sound” (Text pp. 229-230)
Discuss when and why Port Royal was taken by the union forces.
Discuss the significance of “Gideon’s Band.”
Discuss the “First Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteers.”

Thursday- The students will:                 
Read and discuss “On the Homefront” (Text p. 230)
Explain what is meant by “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight”
Discuss how the people at home supported the war effort.
Read and discuss “Testing the Union Blockade” (Text p.231)
Explain why the Union blockaded southern ports.
Discuss blockade runners.
Describe the significance of the Hunley.
Read and discuss “Robert Smalls and the Planter” (Text p.231)
Explain the importance of Robert Smalls in the history of South Carolina.
Read and discuss “Attack on Charleston” (Text pp. 231-232)
Describe 3 instances during the war in which Charleston suffered damage.
Identify the “Swamp Angel”
Discuss the first black regiment to see action in the war.

Friday-No school for students

Homework: Study the Unit 7 Pre-View nightly.
*Unit VII Test, January 26


Standard Indicators: 8-3.5-6

8-3.5 Compare the military strategies of the North and South with regard to specific events and geographic locations in South Carolina, including the capture of Port Royal, the Union blockade of Charleston, and Sherman’s march through the state.

8-3.6 Compare the effects of the Civil War on daily life in South Carolina, including the experiences of plantation owners, women, Confederate and Union soldiers, African Americans, and children.


 
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Vocabulary

Civil War
Volunteers
Confederacy
Blockade
Conscription
Ironclad
Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter
Emancipation Proclamation
Total war
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert Smalls
Capture of Port Royal
First Regiment SC Volunteers
Hunley
Appomattox Courthouse
Swamp Angel
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment


 

 

 

Last Revision: 1-11-2010

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