Hey Baby Birds...We have another short week of three classes, but don't fret....IT'S CIVIL WAR TIME!!! 700,000 casualties! Robert E. Lee! William T. Sherman, Burning ATLanta!, ANTIETAM, 53,000 casualties at Gettysburg....HARDTACK!!!
Civil Introduction...Ken Burns' The Civil War
Monday, February 18 -- PRESIDENT'S DAY!!! I am sure the History Channel will have the best Presidential programming on ALL DAY...You know where I will be :)
Day 1
In Class: Election of 1860...Introduction to the Civil War...What nation looked like before the Civil War -- Comparing and contrasting the North and South prior to the war...Map of the Nation in 1860, Secession, Fort Sumter...Battle of Bull Run
HW: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan Presidential Project due Friday, 2/22
Notes: None
Day 2
In Class: We are in the Fishbowl/Computer lab working on the Civil War 150 handout...It's pretty awesome stuff about how the Civil War was fought using this link: Civil War 150 Link...Click Me!
HW: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan Presidential Project due Friday, 2/22
Notes: None
Day 3 (Feb 22)
In Class: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan Presidential Project due -- Military Technology.... how they fought, military technology, what the nation looked like during the first year of the Civil War...Who was the average soldier?
HW: None
Notes: None
Battle of Bull Run/Manassas -- First Major Battle of the Civil War -- July 21, 1861
Battle of Bull Run/Manassas -- First Major Battle of the Civil War -- July 21, 1861
Technology of the Civil War...