Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                 U.S. History                             Grade:              8         

 

Unit:                             Reconstruction                         

Month Presented:         May                                      Unit Length (in weeks):    3         

 

Essential Question (s):

 

·          How can culture and tradition be changed?

·          What is “fair” in victory? Defeat?

·          What is effective resistance? 

 

Learning Objectives:

 

1.        Compare and contrast the different Reconstruction proposals for the South.

 

2.       Identify the Reconstruction measures to address the needs of thousands of newly freed slaves. 

 

3.       Evaluate the effectiveness of freedmen’s programs.

 

4.       Compare and contrast the rights of freedmen “on paper” and in actuality, given the resistance of the white South. 

 

Skills:               Primary Document analysis, Mapmaking and analysis, Presentation and speaking                        skills, Cooperative Group work

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities

 

·          Limited Prior Knowledge Strategy:       How would you fix the South?
·          Plans for Reconstruction:   Analysis of 10% Plan, Andrew Johnson’s Plan, and Congressional Reconstruction

·          Advertisement Assignment for Freedman’s  Bureau, Bank, School

·          “Ku Klux Klan Visits a Negro”  Dramatic Reading

·          Primary Sources:                  

                                    Reconstruction Amendments

                                    Black Codes

                                    Jim Crow Laws

·          “We Wear the Mask” 

·          Simulation:   Ku Klux Klan Hearings

·          Reconstruction Letter Assignment-  explain the problems with Reconstruction, outline recommendations to improve life in the South for African Americans

·          Videos/Multimedia

Roots, Part 6 (segment)

                        “Gone with the Wind” (segment

 

Materials Utilized:         Primary Sources, Political cartoons, Graphic organizers, Rubrics, CD-                                     Roms, Video, Overhead Projector, Art

 

Assessment Strategies:  tests, quizzes, essays, daily preparation, oral presentations,                                                 mapmaking