What was it like to live through the Civil War? Learners investigate the question by creating multimedia presentations. With a scaffolded approach that includes research, creating a biopic poem, storyboard, and then polished multimedia capstone, scholars consider the point of view of various figures during the era, ranging from Clara Barton to Frederick Douglas.

Concepts

causes of the civil war, battles of the civil war, the united states civil war, civil war, biography writing, historical research, multimedia, multimedia presentations

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Have pupils create biopic poems of their assigned people from the Civil War
• Develop a class library of multi-media presentations as final projects for a unit on the Civil War

Classroom Considerations

• Class members need access to research and presentation materials

Pros

• Project is scaffolded and easy to adapt to existing resources
• Rubrics and instructions are complete and make the project easy to implement

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.10