TECHNICAL
- Students will work in groups to generate words associated with the Civil War. They will use www.menti.com to create a class word diagram.
- Students will summarize the Civil War, and create a Voki reading their summary aloud to the class.
PEDAGOGICAL
- Front loading information about the Civil War
CONTENT KNO.
- Literacy
- Civil War
- North vs. South
- Watch video that recaps the Civil War in kid-friendly terms.
- Civil War Word diagram
- Why was the war fought?
- Who was fighting?
How did it end?
SUCCESS!
Introduction to Pink and Say
In fourth grade, we read the text, Pink and Say, by Patricia Polacco. This story is based on two boys who are fighting in the Civil War. One is eager to go to war and fight for his rights, the other is running away from war, beacuse he is scared. The boys become very close with one another, and learn some of the things the other has goen through because of his skin color.
Most students have no idea what the Civil War is at this point in their education, so a lot of front loading is reuqired in order for them to understand the story. This is a lesson that uses technology to frontload some of that needed information.
