Mr. Saindon
United States History
Monday, May 12
to Friday, May 16
Last Week
Wrapping up "Overview of the Civil War" packet. Will finish on Monday
This Week: Three topics:
1. Gettysburg: Fill out close activity on the Gettysburg Address (100 points)
2. Skit on the Emancipation Proclamation ((100 points based on team work and focus)
3. "Killing Lincoln"packet questions (100 points)
Battle of Gettysburg
Emancipation Proclamation
Countdown to the Civil War
Learning Objective
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Students will identify the conflicts between the North and South and explain how these led to the Civil War.
1.Students will be able to create a timeline of events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Students will be able to discuss the effects of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. After reading the Gettysburg Address, students will be able to summarize the content.
2. Students will be able to discuss the political and military conditions that led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. After reading the document, students will be able to summarize, in writing, the meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation.
3. Lincoln’s Assassination – Understand the events leading up to and following April 14, 1865.
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The Investigation and Trial – Dive into the search for John Wilkes Booth and the trial of the conspirators.
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Lincoln’s Legacy – Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s lasting impact on America today.
Fall of Richmond
Song: The Night They
Drove Old Dixie Down
Lincoln Surveys the Carnage at Petersburg, Virginia
United States of America
USA
Confederate States of America
CSA
President Abraham Lincoln
President Jefferson Davis
Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Chapter 6 Notes
Chapter 6 Interactive Notebook
Debate over sending King the Olive Branch Petition
Click here to read the true story of how the Declaration of Independence was written. This is a very good article.
Here is a scene from the "John Adams" series showing the Second Continental Congress voting on the Declaration of Independence. This is so cool!!!
Watch Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
Have we crossed the globe and we're standing on the ground. Screaming across the way you can hear the sound. There's no fair trials no train no liberty no tears with colonized America we will stand for a need oh keep and it's too late to apologize it's too late I said it's too late to follow a child it's too late. Page you foolish tax read the acts and they just won't do. We wanna make you feel we believe this much is true. A man were created with certain unalienable rights among these life liberty and the pursuit of a happy it's too late to apologize it's too late I said it's too late too by the time it's too late. It's too late. I say it. Too many. This is it. Halfway across the globe and we're standing on the ground.