vitellocollab Kelli M. Vitello

Title of Tile: Civil War

Grade Level: 7th

    New York State Learning Standards

    Social Studies
  • Standard 1: History of the United States and New York
  • Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
  • English Language Arts
  • Standard 1: Language for Information and
  • Understanding
  • Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
  • Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
  • Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

    • Introduction:

  • It's 1875 and the Civil War has been over for many years. You were a Union General. Imagine that you are sitting around the fireplace. You are telling your grandchildren the details that you remember about the Civil War.

      Process:

    • Complete the eWorksheet and create a poster project
    • Step 1) Go to the designated spot with your group members.
    • Step 2) One group member should print out the eWorksheet for each member in the group.
    • Step 3) Group members should decide what question they are responsible to complete.
    • Step 4) Go to the assigned webpage and complete the activity.
    • Step 5) When activity is complete join the other group that is responsible for the same questions.
    • Step 6) Compare and discuss the questions.
    • Step 7) Fill in the eWorksheet after discussion with groups.
    • Step 8) Create the poster project. Refer to the tutorials at the bottom. When finished with your poster - print out the Poster ID and the Poster URL. Poster Requirements are provided below.
    • ID for Telling Details - 86890
    • ID for Leaders - 86891
    • ID for Timeline - 86892
    • Update link is below
    • Step 7) Prepare to discuss the topic with the class.

        • Objectives/Tasks:

      1. Students will accurately complete 90% of the assigned work.
      2. Students will placed the complete assignments into the bin with 90% accuracy.
      3. Students will work cooperatively within designated groups with 85% accuracy.
      4. Student will present learned information in a timely, organized manner with 85% accuracy.
      5. Student will demonstrate an understanding of the material through answering and discussing information with 85% accuracy.
      To place work in outline form refer to the Useful links section below.

      Evaluation:

      Rubric is in Useful Links section eWorksheets Below 1. Telling Details WorksheetRefer to the Useful Links for project requirements 2. Leaders WorksheetRefer to the Useful Links for project requirements 3. Timeline WorksheetRefer to the Useful Links for project requirements
Useful links
Last updated  2008/09/28 07:00:39 PDTHits  290