Overview
Grade Level:
7th to 8th grade
Subject:
Language
Arts
Social Studies
Art
Learner Outcomes:
·Students will view Civil War Overview Power Point.
·Students will practice listening skills.
·Students will be able to orally discuss one fact from the Power Point presentation.
Duration of Lesson:
1 class period (45 minute period)
Materials:
Computer
LCD projector /Microsoft power point
program
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Microsoft
Power Point
LCD projector
Teacher Notes:
Book ability to use computer with LCD connections for Power Point
Procedures:
Day one:
·Present Power Point Civil War Overview to class.
·Students will view the Power Point on Civil War Overview.
·Students will respond to teacher questions during Power Point of Civil War Overview.
·Students will be asked to recall one fact from the presentation.
·Make accommodations and meet the needs of students with Individual Educational Plans (IEPS).
Enrichment Activities:
- Create a collage of written facts from the Power Point Civil War Overview.
- Research and investigate one key fact from Power Point presentation on the Internet. Have student share with the class orally the web site and information found.
- Students attentive and on task to listening.
- Students are able to give one correct fact from the Power Point Civil War Overview. (80% class interaction)
Language
7.9 2,4,5,6,8 listen to specific information and construct meaning beyond the text (e.g., character's feeling)
7.105,6,8 listen to oral communications and identify a synonym for a dictated word
7.11 2,3,4,5,6,8 listen to oral communications and distinguish between fact and opinion
7.12 listen to oral communications to determine author's purpose
8.141,2,5,6,7
think critically about a selection to lead to exploration, questioning,
and imagining about a selection read orally
Social
Studies
7.45 identify social conditions that have influenced or altered the movement of people throughout the world (e.g., slavery)
7.504,6,11 identify the role of racial and ethnic minorities and women in the advancement of civil rights and key figures
8.46 explain reasons for and resulting consequences of conflicts and wars as they pertain to the development of West Virginia (e.g., French and Indian War, American Revolution, Civil War)
8.48 explain the conflicts between eastern and western Virginia and sequence the events that led to the formation of the state of West Virginia
8.59 use appropriate software to practice and master eighth grade social studies instructional objectives
8.60 use a variety of audio-visual and multi-media materials to practice and master eighth grade social studies instructional objectives
Art
7.14 choose a specific feeling to evoke through integration of visual, spatial, and temporal concepts.
7.15 use subject, values, theme, and/or symbols to communicate desired aesthetic results or personal values in an artwork
8.14 identify various careers in art, e.g., architecture: city planning, landscape, buildings; art education; entertainment: animation, special effects design, art direction for performing arts; exhibit and display design, fashion design, fine arts and crafts; graphic design: layout, illustration, computer graphics, publishing, film and video; industrial design: furniture, tools, toys, automobiles; interior design, photography, photojournalism
Language Arts Standards
Listening and Speaking
8. Demonstrates competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning
United States History Standards
Era 5 - Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
13.
Understands the causes of the Civil War
14. Understands the course and character
of the Civil War and its effects on the American people
Visual Arts Standards
3.
Knows a range of subject matter, symbols, and potential ideas in the visual
arts
4. Understands the visual arts in relation
to history and cultures
Job/Career Clusters:
Fine Arts and Humanities
References:
Power
Point: Civil War Overview
The
Civil War
The
American Civil War Page
Lightspan
Scholastic.com
Poetry
and Music of the War Between the States
Daisy
Publishing (Civil War Books)
Civil
War MIDI Page
Symbols
in Battle: Civil War Flags In National Park Service Collections
The
Women of The Hall - Harriet Beecher Stowe
An
Outline of American Literature
IHAS:
Artist/Movement/Ideas
Mathew
Brady Portrait
ULYSSES
S. GRANT CAMP #68, St. Louis, Mo.
Author:
Mary
Ann Bozeman
Christopher
Godfrey
Sharon
Hutchison