Students,
You have a lot of work to do. Get busy and don't waste your time at school. If I hear of any discipline issues or reminders from the teachers for you to get to work, you will receive a zero for the assignments. No questions asked. There will be no Zooms this week and I will not be checking my email. Figure it out. There will be zero excuses for this work not to be completed this week.
Please turn in your School Current Event Article to the teacher in the room and have them put the assignment on my desk.
You are to read through the rest of the Civil War Doc, watch the flicks embedded in the Doc, and answer the following Q's in your SS Journal for a Quiz Grade.
Begin reading the Doc at "Women Support the War"...
- What was one of the hardest thing for a family to imagine entering the war?
- What did women have to do once men went to war?
- Who was Clara Barton?
- Who was Judah P. Benjamin?
- What were General US Grant's General Orders #11?
- Initially, the Union was not fighting to get rid of slavery. What were they fighting for?
- Which side of the war did Robert E. Lee fight for?
- Which side of the war did Ulysses S. Grant fight for?
- What was an ironclad?
- Which ironclad was more effective? (You have to make an inference based on the reading at the flick)
- What ships were now considered useless once the ironclad was invented and why was this the case?
- By mid-1862, who was winning the war?
- What was the bloodiest day in the Civil War and approximately how many casualties were there?
- After the bloodiest day in the Civil War, what did Matthew Brady do that was new in American history?
- What did President Lincoln do after the Battle of Antietam? What slaves were "freed" in this proclamation?
- Why doesn't Lincoln free all the slaves in his Emancipation Proclamation? (You might need to think hard about this one)
- Ulysses S. Grant was a tough general. What did some people think the "U.S" stood for in his name?
- What happened on July 1, 1863?
- How many soldiers were killed or wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and who won the battle?
- While the Battle of Gettysburg was taking place, where was Ulysses S. Grant and why did Grant believe city was important?
- How did Lincoln's Gettysburg Address change the nature of the war? What was the new purpose of the war and what line of his speech made it so important?
- After reading about William Tecumseh Sherman's March Through Georgia and watching the flicks, explain what Sherman's men did to Georgia.
- What was Andersonville and what made it so horrific?
- When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for his second term on March 4, 1865, he said "with malice toward none, and charity for all". What did Lincoln mean by this phrase?
- What happened on April 9, 1865?
- What was John Wilkes Booth's plans and why did he want to do all of this?
- Was Booth successful in his plan?
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When finished with the Civil War Q's, please complete the following: Reconstruction Doc
Explain how Reconstruction was both a success and a failure?
You will write a two paragraph response to the above question. The first sentence tells the reader what Reconstruction was and when it lasted. Paragraph one then explains how Reconstruction was successful. You must provide two examples of how Reconstruction was successful.
Paragraph two will explain how Reconstruction was a failure. You must provide a minimum of two exaploes of how Reconstruction was a failure. Do your best to put the information in your own words.
Rubric -- 100 Points -- Quiz Grade -- Graded in 5 point increments -- NO FIRST PERSON!
The assignment will be handwritten in your SS Journal unless you have an accommodation. If you have an accommodation to type it, you will print the assignment. If you do not print the assignment and turn it in to the teacher, you will receive a 50. No excuses.
Title the assignment in the SS Journal “Reconstruction”
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Complete the following Current Event HW assignment by Monday, Feb. 22 -- Type the answers to the questions in MLA format and turn them in to the teacher in the room and have them put it in a pile on my desk.