Wednesday, 9/26

• Please open your notebook to the Unit Learning Map – We’re Organizing!

Closer – 9/26: Rank the Plans!

Make a scale like the one below

Easy on Hard on

The Souththe South

Identify and explain where you would note the three plans (Lincoln, Johnson, and Radical Republicans of Congress)

Tues. 9/25

• Please pick up “The Road to Freedom” packet and highlighter if you need one.

• Read through it and await further instructions.

• Look through “The Road to Freedom” packet and highlight parts of the comic (words or pictures) that show that the Freedmen are not equal after Emancipation.

Monday, 9/24

• Drop –off last week’s warm-up/closer worksheet and pick-up a new one.

• Pick-up a small sheet with quotes on it.• For each quote, identify who might

have said it and why it might have been stated.

• “The Yankee freed you. Now let the Yankee feed you.”

• “I felt like a bird out of a cage. Amen. Amen.”

• “We have turned loose 4 million slaves without a …cent in their pockets.”

• “White men must manage the south.”

• “There is nothing else I know anything about except managing a plantation.”

Three Questions About Fountain Hughes

• What freedoms did he experience?

• What limitations did he experience?

• What might be Fountain’s opinion of Reconstruction?

Closer – 9/24

Friday 9/21

Write the following statement for today’s warm-up. Fill-in the

blanks with your own idea. An example follows

Reconstruction is like _____________, because

_______________________.

Reconstruction is like my bedroom, because

it didn’t take long to make it messy, but it will take a long time to clean!

Closer 9/21 – Text Messages

• Write one text message regarding the start of Reconstruction from:

– Plantation Owner to Plantation Owner,– Poor White to Poor White, and– Freedman to Freedman

Thursday, 9/20

Drop off your take home essay in the bin!

• It is April 1865. The Civil War is over. You are the President. Answer the following question:

What issues do you face regarding Reconstruction?

Closer 9/20 – “War/Peace”

• Using your own words and in a paragraph, explain the meaning of this activity and how it relates to the Reconstruction Period.