American History Honors

Civil War and Reconstruction Unit

Textbook, Chapters 11 & 12 and Primary Source Documents

 

SCHEDULE

 

Date

Topic / Activity

(Schedule tentative)

Readings

Assignments Due

Thu. 11/10

Group Activity on Political Compromise (intended to help with paper assignment)

State Capitals Quiz

Fri. 11/11

SCHOOL HOLIDAY

Mon. 11/14 (A)

Tue. 11/15 (F)

Beginning of the Civil War to Shiloh (and Mississippi campaign)

Advantages/Disadvantages Chart online

Textbook 11.1-11.2

Tue. 11/15 (A)

Wed. 11/16 (F)

War in the West, Peninsular Campaign to Politics

Textbook 11.2-11.3

Course Reader, Docs. 3.10A & 3.10B

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Wed. 11/16 (A)

Thu. 11/17 (F)

Finish political changes to “North Takes Command”

Presidents DVD: Lincoln

Textbook 11.3-11.4

Thu. 11/17 (A)

Fri. 11/18 (F)

Gettysburg and Vicksburg to Sherman’s March to the Sea

Textbook 11.3-11.4

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Sherman to Hood (1864)

Hood to Sherman (1864)

Mon. 11/21 (A)

Tue. 11/22 (F)

Overland Campaign to the end of the war

Textbook 11.4-11.5

Tue. 11/22 (A)

Extra class (activity to be announced)

Thanksgiving Holidays

Mon. 11/28 (A)

Tue. 11/29 (F)

End of war

Comparison: Pres. Reconstruction vs. Congressional Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!

Tue. 11/29 (A)

Wed. 11/30 (F)

The Reconstruction Ordeal

Textbook, Ch. 12 (all)

Course Reader, Docs 4.1 & 4.2

Wed. 11/30 (A)

Thu. 12/1 (F)

Reconstruction Quiz

Wrap-up Reconstruction

Review

Textbook, Ch. 12 (all)

Course Reader, Docs 4.1 & 4.2

Thu. 12/1 (A)

Fri. 12/2 (F)

UNIT TEST

Document Questions due to Schoology

Mon. 12/5

PAPER # 4 due to Turnitin.com