Lesson Overview
Students will discover the meaning of Reconstruction through hands-on activities.The teacher will use the book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, Harriet Gillem Robinet and Wendell Minor, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, NY, 1998, as a read aloud for the duration of this lesson or until completed.
Essential Question
How did life for African Americans in South Carolina change, yet stay the same, during Reconstruction?
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None needed, but software could be used to complete the flip-book.
- LCD projector
- Laptop
- Chart Paper
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Pencils
- Student scissors
- Writing journal
- 12" x 18" drawing paper
- Pattern blocks
- Fifth grade social studies textbook
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- 5-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.
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Lesson Partners: Teaching American History in South Carolina, Oconee County School District, South Carolina Department of Archives and History