When the Team gets divided;



Tamanend Middle School

Civil War Challenge

The team is divided;

classmate against classmate;

friend against friend;

brother against brother;

it’s no longer a game…it’s Civil War

Spring, 2013

General Landis

&

General McFarland

Name ___________________________

Regiment _______________________

Weeks 5 to 9 Required Readings and Homework

Wednesday, April 23 – Read 22.3 – Bull Run and Women’s Participation

Monday, April 28 – Read 22.4 – Antietam: the bloodiest day, New Realities of War (medicine)

Wednesday, April 30 – Read 22.5 – Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address

Monday, May 5 – Read 22.6 – Vicksburg: A Besieged City

Tuesday, May 6 – Read 22.7 and 22.8A – Fort Wagner (African American involvement in the war) and Appomattox:

Total War Brings an End

Wednesday, May 14 – Read 22.8B - Appomattox: Total War Brings an End

Weeks 5 to 9 Battles

Introduction

On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, thus beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. 620,000 casualties. More than all other American wars combined. The Civil War remains this nation’s most defining experience, ultimately giving new meaning to the word “freedom.” Walt Whitman, a young newspaperman destined to become one of America’s greatest poets, wrote, “We will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of this war, and it’s best that we should not. The real war will never be in the books.” These weeks the war will come alive for all of us to experience.

BATTLE # 10 – Northern Lights Poem (due in class on Tuesday, April 29)

Your group is to submit one narrative poem describing the events of the Battle of Fredericksburg written from the perspective of the Union soldier Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Your poem can be in any style you wish and should have at least two stanzas. Your poem will be presented in a dramatic fashion.

5000 soldiers awarded to the winning regiment.

BATTLE #11 – Experiencing Gettysburg – stay tuned for more information (in class)

BATTLE # 12 – Total War Speeches (due in class on Wednesday, May 14th)

Your regiment is to submit one speech, one poem, and one drawing in support of (North) or against (South) Sherman’s use of total war.

7000 soldiers will be awarded to the winning regiment

Battles 13 through 16 will each be worth 10000 soldiers to the winning regiment

BATTLE #13 – “Tenting Tonight”

Each regiment must construct and dismantle 2 Civil War style tents in the fastest time in order to earn soldiers. The tents must be sturdy and well-constructed for inspection by the commanding officers.

BATTLE #14 – Town Ball

This challenge will bring you directly back to the activities of the 1860’s.

BATTLE #15 – Regimental Drilling

All Union and Confederate troops will be whipped into top military shape.

BATTLE #16 – Battlefield Challenge

The battlefield challenge will be the review for the unit exam. This will be a battle nobody forgets!

FINAL CHALLENGE:

MAY 21st – CIVIL WAR UNIT EXAM

Bull Run and the Women 22.3 (due Wednesday, 4/23)

1. Explain each of the three steps of the Anaconda Plan.

2. Who won the Battle of Bull Run? Describe the roles that Rose Greenhow and “Stonewall” Jackson played in the victory.

3. List five roles for women during the Civil War. Circle the role you would have wanted to fill if you were a woman at that time and tell why.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

Antietam: The Bloodiest Day 22.4 (due Monday 4/28)

1. Explain what the Union navy and army did to put each of the three steps of the Anaconda Plan into action from 1861 to 1862. Refer to your diagram from the Causes packet (22.3) to remind you of each step of the plan.

2. Many soldiers who fought in the Battle of Antietam saw it as a defeat for both armies. Why? Support your answer with statistics.

3. Give three reasons why the death toll for soldiers in the Civil War was so high. Circle the reason that was the most deadly.

a.

b.

c.

Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address 22.5 (due Wednesday, 4/30)

1. Fill in the diagram with two reasons why Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and two important effects of his action.

Lincoln’s Reasons for Effects of

Issuing the Proclamation Issuing the Prolamation

2. Fill in the speech bubbles to show what General Lee might have said before and after the Battle of Gettysburg.

[pic]

3. Why did some Northerners oppose the war? How did President Lincoln respond when opposition turned violent?

4. Write a short excerpt from the Gettysburg Address that shows how Lincoln chose words to connect his speech to the Declaration of Independence. Then explain why you think he wanted to connect his address to the Declaration.

Vicksburg: A Besieged City 22.6 (due Monday, 5/5)

1. Complete the spoke diagram. One entry has been started for you.

2. Explain what the Union navy and army did to maintain or make progress on Steps 1 and 2 of the Anaconda Plan from 1862 to 1863.

3. Suppose you are a civilian in the South in 1864. Write a short letter to your father in the Confederate army telling him what life is like for civilians back home.

Fort Wagner (African American involvement in the war) 22.7 (due Tuesday, 5/6)

1. Fill in the Venn diagram to compare the experience of African American soldiers and white soldiers in the Union army. Give at least two important similarities and at least four key differences.

Appomattox: Total War Brings an End 22.8A

1. Describe what General Grant meant by the term total war. Do you believe that total war is an appropriate war strategy? Why or why not?

2. Explain what the Union army did to complete Step 3 of the Anaconda Plan from 1864 to 1865.

Appomattox: Total War Brings an End 22.8B (due Wednesday, 5/14)

1. Write a newspaper headline and a short news article describing the event that occurred in Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Be sure to include information on what, who, when, where, and why.

2. There were many important results of the Civil War. Which do you think was the most important, and why?

-----------------------

[pic]

May

15th

16th

19th

20th

1.

2.

1.

2.

Lincoln

Issues the Emancipation Proclamation

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download