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| Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1876 | |||||
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | |
| Choose 1 of the Spine Books: | |||||
 A Patriot’s History Chapter 9 1860-1865 | Bull Run | Water War | War in the West | Growing Government | The Proclamation |
 Beowulf’s Big Book of Early American History | p. 374-378 The Story of the First Battle Between Ironclads | p. 378-381 Antietam, Fredericksburg, and The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 381-385 Chancellorsville and the Death of Stonewall Jackson 1863 | p. 385-388 The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 | |
| Non-Fiction Books | |||||
 Guts & Glory: The American Civil War | Chapters 7-8 | Chapters 9-10 | Chapters 11-12 | ||
 To Be a Slave | Chapter 6 | ||||
| Fiction/Literature/Graphic Novels | |||||
 Big Bad Ironclad | Read this week. | ||||
 The Gettysburg Address | p.1-32 | p. 33-48 | p. 49-62 | p. 63-80 | p. 81-99 |
| Mapwork | |||||
 | p. 95 Vicksburg | ||||
| Workbook | |||||
| Workbook | Note: The printable schedule has boxes you can check for each day to mark when you do the workbook pages. | ||||
| Links from the Workbook | Antietam Animated Map Pending conflict story map Wikipedia conscription article Civil War Trust Animated Map: Gettysburg Article about Liberia | ||||
| Extra Resources and Activities | |||||
| Activities | |||||
| Videos | 1 of 5 Battle of Antietam 1862 *Warning: This series contains violence and pictures of death. For the Beowulf book: Horrible Histories Awesome USA: first ironclad ship. General Stonewall Jackson 2:42m | 2 of 5 Battle of Antietam 1862 The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History For the Beowulf book: Emancipation Proclamation Exposed 2:08m For LEGO fans: Huge LEGO Battle of Fredericksburg | American Civil War 13:56 (Can watch at 2x speed.) | 3 of 5 Battle of Antietam 1862 Civil War Trust Animated Map: Vicksburg Children of U.S. Civil War Vets Reminisce About Fathers | National Geographic 6:40m See Stonewall Jackson in action (movie clip): Stone Wall Jackson | 4 of 5 Battle of Antietam 1862 *There is a YouTube content warning for this video. For the Beowulf book: The Battle Of Gettysburg Summarized In Less Than A Minute 0:49m Lego Battle of Gettysburg – Custer’s Cavalry Charge – stopmotion 4:27m There is some LEGO violence, and a LEGO figure says, “Dear God.” | 5 of 5 Battle of Antietam 1862 The Emancipation Proclamation Explained: US History Review CSS Neuse – Confederate Ironclad 4:05m |
| Full-length videos | Glory | ||||
| Websites | View Civil War photographs at the Smithsonian: You can go through and look at photos and illustrations from the Civil War. Preview for gruesome scenes. Optional: Choose a photograph of a person and create a character sheet about him/her. Use this page for ideas. Here is a related video: TinType Photography Process HD 2:56m | ||||
| Your book choice | Note: The printable schedule has an option for you to write in a book title of your choice in this space and to keep track of the days and pages you read. | ||||
The video links are gone.
We’ll get that fixed as soon as our power outage is over in a day or so (hopefully). During the site update we probably forgot to paste them in.
We’ll check it out as soon as we have access to our PC (we are in the midst of a power outage)! 🙂 In the meantime, you can access the links for this week in your PDF schedule. Thank you so much for leaving a comment and letting us now about this issue.
The links are fixed! 🙂
Thank you!
You’re very welcome! 🙂
broken links:
Civil War Trust Animated Map: Gettysburg
Civil War Trust Animated Map: Vicksburg
Thank you so much for letting us know about the broken links and for helping to keep the schedule up-to-date! They are fixed now!