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A 4 TH GRADE TEACHING UNIT CREATED BY SHANNON RALSTON The Reconstruction Era: 1865-1877

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The Reconstruction Era: 1865-1877. A 4 th Grade Teaching Unit Created By Shannon Ralston . The Reconstruction Era: An Overview . End of the Civil War ushered in a 12 year long Reconstruction Era as the nation lay in ruins and needed a physical and political repair job - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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A 4 T H G R A D E T E A C H I N G U N I T C R E AT E D B Y S H A N N O N R A L S T O N

The Reconstruction Era: 1865-1877

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The Reconstruction Era: An Overview

End of the Civil War ushered in a 12 year long Reconstruction Era as the nation lay in ruins and needed a physical and political repair job

Major Legislation: Freedman’s Bureau, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Civil Rights Act of 1865 (slavery banned, civil rights acknowledged, voting rights granted)

Confederate states reintegrated, thereby forming a union Tension persisted despite government action – emergence of KKK,

discriminatory black codes, Jim Crow Laws, segregation Women making moves – Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Industrial Revolution – importance of Chinese (Transcontinental Railroad)

and Irish workers (immigration wave) – threat to religious and cultural belief systems in place

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The Unit

(I) Map & Globe Skills - Creating A New Nation Post-Civil War(II) Art – The Statue of Liberty(III) Biography – Susan B. Anthony: Activist & Reformer(IV) Inquiry – The Price of Freedom: A Look at The Effects of Reconstruction

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Reconstruction: Creating A New Nation Post- Civil War

Students will illustrate effects of reconstructive policy on Union states and Confederate states by modeling rejoining of Confederates into the nation

Students will draw conclusions about what this rejoining might mean for future policy or what problems it may create

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Reconstruction: Creating A New Nation Post- Civil War

Discussion of problems nation faced post-Civil War

Read-aloud of The Civil War for Kids to hit on key issues and get them thinking about potential solutions

Primary solution posited by Andrew Johnson (as inspired by Abraham Lincoln) was to readmit the states that seceded

Show on classroom map how states were divided because of political views

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Reconstruction: Creating A New Nation Post- Civil War

Students will model the physical reconstruction of the nation

Students receive blank maps Half the class colors the Union

states in blue Other half colors the

Confederate states in red Students then reunite and

work together to join their colored segments

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Art – The Statue of Liberty“If a monument should rise in the United States as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only

natural if it were built by a united effort.” Edouard Rene de Laboulage

Goal is to link the first wave of immigration at the end of the Reconstruction Era with the relevance of the Statue of Liberty’s construction

Start with reading of Lynn Curlee’s book, Liberty

Show students Peter Max’s painting of the Statue of Liberty

Have students recreate the work of Peter Max using similar colors having designed personal symbols to include in the picture’s background that best capture their personal understanding of liberty

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Susan B. Anthony: Activist & Reformer“Men, their rights and nothing more. Women, their rights and nothing less.”

Reading of Susan B. Anthony, Champion of Women’s Rights

Discussion of her life, focusing on events in adulthood such as her arrest at a voting facility in the 1862 Presidential Election Used mobility of rights for African American men

to gain a voice and a platform for women’s rights Play speech on Women’s Right to Vote

Anthony's Speech Show advertisement for her trial Students write letter to Anthony

celebrating her efforts towards women’s suffrage

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Inquiry – The Price of Freedom: A Look at the Effects of Reconstruction“We have, as well will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with

every other man.” – Abraham Lincoln

By conducting research, students should understand that different groups of people in the United States were affected by the aftermath of war and the legislation that followed

The Reconstruction Era by Bettye Stroud implemented as a catalyst Students formulate 3 questions about a group that interests them the most

(for example, African-American men or white males who were former slaveowners)

Research via three main sources Constitutional Amendments 13, 14 and 15 as primary sources Teacher site that contains a plethora of documents as secondary sources James Schouler’s book History of the United States of America: 1865-1877 which is a compilation of

material from the designated time period

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Closing & Legacy – We’ve Come a Long Way!

Crediting forefathers with their contributions in creating the America we live in today - Helps them relate to the ideals our country values and how it is we came to adopt this national perspective

Without the changes that took place in the Reconstruction Era, this country may not be the ‘United’ States nor would it be characterized by diversity and equality

Captures integration of blacks and whites, acknowledging them as equals, which is particularly relevant in a time which features classrooms with diverse student bodies

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Rewards & Challenges

Rewards Opportunity to create a unit

that I hope to implement when student teaching that will “shake up” the monotony of textbook-based instruction

Learning to use mentor text as a catalyst to lessons, thereby making connections as a future instructor & bridging the gap between the various subjects

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Rewards & Challenges

Challenges Concern for time

Being able to implement these lessons in a timely fashion with an ever-expanding curriculum

Creating a lesson that could realistically work in an inclusive classroom Practicum experience ESL Learners, ED & Special Ed

Learners