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Week 2 toc

Day 5 - Monday July 2nd

 * 5.1 -Opener**
 * -Create a "Week 2" page if you have not done so already**

What did you think about the Mission: US game you played? Write your thoughts on using games like this in school. Did you enjoy learning this way? What did you learn?

Mission US: For Crown or Colony?
 * 5.2 - Finish the game:**

In the Mission: US video game, there are 12 possible outcomes among three different characters you must chose to go with at the end of the game after you have given your deposition about witnessing the Boston Massacre. Describe your outcome.
 * 5.3 -** **Summarize the outcome of your game**
 * Which of the three final characters did you chose to go with: Royce, Constance, or Solomon? Why?
 * What were your results? Describe what happened to you and any other choices you may have been able to make with Royce, Constance or Solomon
 * Was your outcome good or bad? Explain. What was your reaction to the ending you picked?

This is the final activity for the Mission: US game. Open the document below and respond to ONE of the writing prompts. Write this in your virtual notebook.
 * 5.4 -** **Writing Prompt - Quiz**



The first commercial photographic process, the daguerreotype, was barely 20 years old when Matthew Brady took a staff of photographers to chronicle the Civil War. You will now look at several Civil War photographs and in your wikispace page observations about what these images tell you about the conditions, tactics, and trauma of this war.
 * 5.5 - Analyzing Digital Media - Photographs**
 * //(The next few were taken from the Teaching American History with Digital Media online course)//**

Step 1:Go to the Images of the Civil War page for //The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns// Web site. View each of the photographs. To read details about each photo, roll over each image and click on the boxes.

Step 2:Write down your observations. Whom do you see in the photographs? List details, such as what people are wearing, what they are doing, and what their surroundings are like. Then, answer the following questions:
 * What does each photograph tell you about the conditions experienced by Civil War soldiers?
 * How did conditions compare for the Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers?
 * Who else experienced these conditions?

Step 3:Now reflect on your experience analyzing these photographs.
 * How do these images serve as a record of the Civil War?
 * What types of information were you able to learn from the photographs?
 * How does this information compare to, or augment, your previous understanding of what battlefield conditions were like during the Civil War?

You will now have the opportunity to apply the strategy by analyzing a Civil War photograph to determine the authenticity of the scene it depicts. . **Title:**
 * 5.6 -Analyze a photograph**

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter (A Dead Confederate Sharpshooter in Devil's Den)

Step 1: //Look at this photograph and write down your initial observations. Consider the following questions as you interpret the image://
 * Who is in the photo?
 * What do you think happened?
 * What does the title mean?
 * What does the title imply about how you might understand the image?

Step 2: //Next, analyze the image. Use the following questions, as well as any additional questions that you would want to include in your own viewing tool, to make your analysis://
 * What was the photographer's goal/purpose in making this image?
 * Do you think that the creator of this image might have had an agenda or motive beyond simply capturing the scene? If so, what might it have been?
 * Does anything appear out of context or out of place in this scene? Why or why not?
 * Is the soldier's expression, position, or movements consistent with what you would expect in this scene?
 * Does this image make logical sense?

Step 3: //Go to Civil War Photography on the Biography of America Web site to learn more about the origins of this photograph. Were you surprised by what you learned?//

Step 4: //Conclude the activity by going to the Something More section on this Biography of America Web page. Click on Questions to Ponder and reflect on the questions there. You can also check Civil War Photography and Gallery of Alexander Gardner Images.//

Create a picture collage of 10 items you would take with you to the battlefield if you were a Civil War soldier. Use PrimaryAccess to create your storyboard. Include a description of the item and why you are bringing it with you.
 * 5.7 - Create a Storyboard**

-Click on "storyboard" To LogIN: username: summerstudent12 password: history

//Use the following websites to find pictures:// Civil War Timeline Center for Civil War Photographs Civil War Photographs Ken Burns Civil War [|Civil War Photographs]

//Research Information on the life of soldiers:// How a Civil War Soldier lived Soldier Life in the Civil War Daily Life of a Soldier in the Civil War Medicine in the Civil War

Day 6 - Tuesday July 3rd
Use this website to refresh your memory: Top 5 Causes of the Civil War
 * 6.1 - Define "civil war." What caused the American Civil War?**

(adapted from The Election of 1860 wikispace by Mr. Max) This Election is considered the final dividing point in splitting the country apart and leading to a civil war. Read and mark up the following background reading:
 * 6.2 - The Election of 1860**

Complete the following table based on the reading:
 * 6.3 - Candidate Table**
 * = **CANDIDATE** ||= **POLITICAL PARTY** ||= **SLAVERY PLATFORM** ||= **CCQS** ||

We have analyzed several historical pictures and photographs, now you will interpret a political cartoon. Use the same process, combined with determining bias.
 * 6.4 - Political Cartoon Analysis**





Another important skill in social studies is data interpretation. You will now analyze a series of historical data represented in a pie chart and a table. You will look for key information given in each chart and apply that information to the historical even of the election of 1860.
 * 6.5 - Data Analysis**





After reading the directions below, open the document and in two-column note format examine the pie graph of the national popular vote of the election of 1860:

//For the right column:// What main ideas about the election can you determine from the graph? What details can you provide to support those main ideas?

//For the left column:// Can you draw any connections to the cartoon? Any connections to previous work you have done? What questions does it lead you to ask? What comments do you have? What information do we still need to know?

What conclusions can you draw about this election?


 * 6.6 -State by State Popular Analysis**



Open the document below which details the state by state popular vote of the election of 1860. Follow the directions within the document to determine the winner of each state's vote.


 * 6.7 - Electoral Map Creation**



Using the chart of the state by state vote that you have highlighted, open the document below and complete the creation of an electoral college map for the results of the election of 1860.




 * 6.8 - Conclusion **
 * What conclusions about the Election of 1860 can you draw from looking at the electoral college map? How did this election influence the outbreak of the Civil War? **

Day 7 - Friday July 6th

 * 7.1 - What was the Underground Railroad?**

Mission 2: Flight to Freedom
 * 7.2 - You will now play the final game from the Mission: US website we played earlier. This is Mission 2: Flight to Freedom. You play Lucy, a runaway slave.**

What did you think of this Mission? Which one do you like better, Mission 1 or 2? Why?
 * 7.3 - Reflection - Thoughts on the game**

You will chose three out of the nine assignments below to complete as your final activity for this week. Use the rules of Tic Tac Toe when picking your assignments. You might need to use a copy of the American Anthem textbooks at the front of the classroom for some assignments. Use some of the technology tools we have used over the past two weeks for some of the other options. Attachments needed:
 * 7.4 - Tic Tac Toe Assignment on the Underground Railroad**

Go through and check what you have completed and what still needs to be done. Your homework is to finish any missing work from Week 2.
 * 7.5 - Checklist of Week 2**