Unit 4 Introduction: THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM THE CIVIL WAR AND

Unit 4 Introduction: THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM THE CIVIL WAR AND

Unit 4

Lesson Objectives

• IWBAT

• research and answer questions

• prepare presentation

• hold a class discussion

WARM UP

Watch the video trailer and take notes.

Connect the below quote to the video

"My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I’m going to stay here and have a part of it."

—Paul Robeson

Open Ended

what would it be like to be the child of a slave living in a country where they were routinely denied equal rights. How would that experience shape their view of the world?

Cooperative Learning: Stations Task:

• Group Work Task Description Prepare a presentation using the group designated essential question and topic

  }Make sure to break down the topic, use visuals, create real life connection, show how literature was influenced by that event/ period of time, and engage your peers in class discussion using open ended questions

Stations' Tasks

• Station 1: Essential Question: When is self-determination possible?. Topic: Abolition

• Station 2: What divides us as human beings?. Topic: A Country Divided

• Station 3:Essential Question:What is the price of progress? TopicHow do we face defeat?

• Station 4: Essential Question: What is the price of progress?Rebuilding a Nation

Multiple Choice

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A The nation’s first subway system

• B The nation’s first transcontinental railroad

• C A railroad that ran from the southern United States to Canada

• D An informal network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape

Multiple Choice

Which of the following freed slaves in the South?

• Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The end of Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

What was Reconstruction?

• A The period of rebuilding after the Civil War

• B The harsh new restrictions on African Americans

• C The compromise to allow Rutherford B. Hayes to become president

• D The process for constructing the first transcontinental railroad

Self-assessment

Use the rubric shared in Teams to eva;uate your performance in today's class