making the civil war relevant to children’s lives
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Making the Civil War Relevant to Children’s Lives
Carole Parsons
Alecia Wagoner
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How Children Were Affected by War: Northern/Southern/Slaves
• Boy soldiers• Boys - prisoners of war• Children with soldier fathers/brothers• Children who took the roles of fathers
and older brothers at war• Children in battle areas• Children displaced from their homes
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Best Source for Multiple Perspectives of Children
• Reluctant Witnesses: Children’s Voices From the Civil War by Emmy E. Werner
#1 CHOICE
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Primary Sources
• Show how real-life children experienced historical events
• Help students reconstruct what children experienced during the Civil War
• Develop a much deeper understanding through student analysis
• Engage students’ interest• Offer multiple perspectives on historical
events• Capture the passion and drama of the
past
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Children’s Voices From the Civil WarTeaching History.org
• After reading a section of the textbook, students analyze primary sources showing how children their age experienced the events described in the textbook.
• In this lesson, students examine excerpts from letters written by teenagers who witnessed or participated in Civil War battles, and they analyze period photographs to consider the extent and ramifications of children's involvement.
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Library of Congress: The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
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CD Contents
• Annotated Civil War Bibliography
• Primary Sources & Lessons
• Emma LaConte’s Diary
• Background Information Articles
• Historical Fiction Novel Units
• Battle of Aiken Movie (produced by students)
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From the Smithsonian
Civil War Charactershttp://www.historyexplorer.si.edu/interactives/resource.asp?id=3661
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Using the Premise of a Mystery
• Students act as history detectives as they explore a historical question and analyze clues (primary sources) to form and test hypotheses– Gather, organize and process information as
they work with evidence– Formulate and test hypotheses– Think creatively and analytically to solve
problems– Develop, defend and present solutions to
problems– Report findings
• This strategy relates to what historians do and the process of historical inquiry.
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Civil War CSI
• To investigate the impact the Civil War had on children, students will act as history detectives.
• A group examines an evidence box to investigate clues about a real-life child, containing some of her/his possessions.
• As students analyze primary sources and try to reconstruct information about the child from the evidence, they formulate and test hypotheses.
• As a result of the investigation, students develop reports or short stories detailing the subject of the investigation.
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Investigating Questions
Factual Questions• Who was the child, and what was
his/her age? • Where was the child living?• What was the date of the events
described in the primary sources?• Was the child for the Union or
Confederacy?The Women Will Howl by Mary Deborah Petite
http://www.women-will-howl.com/
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To Unlock the Mystery
Analysis Questions• What has happened to this child? • How do you think this child felt about
the war?• What were the hardships faced?• Describe any example of compassion
or courage that the child witnessed.• Describe the major events in the Civil
War of which the child was a part. • How did the Civil War change this
child's life forever?
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Get Into the Theme of Things
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Extensions1. Have students in groups construct historically
accurate paper dolls of the Civil War characters.2. Have students form a human timeline with each
presenting a Civil War child's view:– Students use their assigned child’s primary source words and
views for the presentation. – Presentations occur in chronological order to provide an
overall summary of the war through the eyes of real Civil War children.
3. Draw parallels from what children experienced in the Civil War to children in war-torn areas today.
1861T.G. Barker
1863Johnny Clem1862
Celine Fremaux1864
Michael Dougherty1865
Emma LaConte
living history time line
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Local Sources
• Use local Civil War children’s stories to enhance your instruction and further engage your students
• Start with your local public library to find published journals, letters, diaries, reminiscences, and news articles.
• Aiken, SC area: I. Jenkins Mikell, Pauline DeCaradeuc, and Schofield Normal and Industrial School
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Using Local Sources
“Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels: Doings and Misdoings in the Barefooted Period of a Boy's Life on a Southern Plantation.”
by I. Jenkins Mikell
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I. Jenkins Mikell Home
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Peter’s Point Plantation
Barton’s Pond
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Graniteville Mill
Used for education with permission by Richard Pearce and the Alicia Patterson Foundation
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Corn Field Near Cotton Factory
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Edisto River Moss
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Martha Schofield
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Schofield Normal and Industrial School Campus
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Schofield Normal and Industrial School
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More Books!
Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888 by Mary D. Robertson
At the age of nineteen Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward began keeping a journal in which she recorded the final years of the Civil War, including the destruction of her plantation home near Aiken, South Carolina; the hardship of the Reconstruction era; her marriage into a distinguished Charleston family; and her efforts to provide for her large family after her husband's death. A fascinating document that spans a traumatic quarter of a century, Heyward's diary offers intimate insights into the deprivation and devastation suffered by southern women during and after the Civil War.
From USC Press
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More Books!Topsy Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the War Upside Down for Southern Children. by Anya Jabour
From Publishers WeeklyUniversity of Montana professor Jabour explores the American Civil War through its effects on children, both black and white, from the time before the war to Reconstruction. Jabour's extensive use of journals, diaries, and records of interviews with adults who lived through the war as children enlivens her text considerably. The recollection of a former slave girl's comment to a passing white boy-"Bottom rail on top now!"-is but one example of the power of Jabour's anecdotes. Given the efficacy of these recollections, it's unfortunate that Jabour chose not to expand more on the people she includes. Instead, her writing suffers from an overtly academic style with a tendency toward obvious statements such as, "...children's attitudes toward the national conflict were shaped by their families and their identities." While the unique topic is intriguing, and the use of primary sources admirable, the ultimate result is nonetheless disappointing. 28 b&w illustrations. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
From Amazon
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Clip Art
• http://www.jewish-history.com/clipartgallery/clipart3.htm
• http://classroomclipart.com/cgibin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States/Civil_War
• http://www.cksinfo.com/americana/ushistory/civilwar/index.html
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Old Post Office and the only remaining palmetto in Charleston
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