Introduction
You are a journalist sent out into the Confederate and union states to find out about certain aspects of the civil war. You are to interview and research 3 major areas of war life ; one major battle, a well known person from the civil war and some recreational activities during civil war times. After research these, you will creating a newspaper using a template we give you.
Task
As you research, you will focus on four specific types of writing. Listed below are the four types of writing or what should be included in each.
1) You will be writing an article depicting one major battle from the civil war. You will need to include the start with the date, ending date, general, where it took place, casualties and the outcome. Along with this information, feel free to add other interesting information. This article needs to be at least 2 paragraphs.
1)http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Lee foundation/civil_war_battles.htm
2)http:kms.kapalama.ksbe.edu/project/2002/civil war/default.htm
3)http:/www.us.civil war.com
Another important thing to include is the interview between you and a well known person from the civil war.
http:// mrkash.com/activities/civilwar
http://ehistory.OSU.edu/uscw/features/people/list.cfm
How did the soldiers pass the tym between battles? What did they do for them to unwind? You will research these answers and then write article summarizing this information
Create pictures e.g newspapers and others
Process
The learners can start gathering information, where they find problems they can ask their teacher.
Evaluation
You will asses as the teacher if the lesson was affectively taught or not
Conclusion
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