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8.3.CC Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Civil War Uniforms & Equipment

Lesson

Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Students delve into Fort Lamar's history and the Civil War through a documentary. Analyzing photographs and recreating a soldier's belongings, they explore how artifacts offer unique insights into the...

Robert Smalls

Lesson

Grades: 8

This lesson delves into the story of Robert Smalls, a pivotal figure in the Civil War, and explores the changing role of African Americans during the conflict. Students will analyze Smalls' actions...

Historical Letter Analysis

Lesson

Grades: 8

This lesson explores Fort Lamar and the Civil War's early years, then analyzes soldier letters from the Battle of Secessionville to highlight the value of primary documents in understanding personal...

Civil War Medicine - Fact or Fiction?

Lesson

Grades: 8

Leveraging a KWL chart, this lesson activates students' prior knowledge of Civil War medicine before delving into the history of Fort Lamar. Through analysis of primary and fictional sources, students...

Salt Marsh Ecosystem

Lesson

Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8

This lesson will explore the Civil War battle of Secessionville and its connection to the unique ecosystem of the Carolina coast's salt marshes. Students will analyze the importance of these marshes...

Fort Lamar: Ordnance- Historical Photograph Analysis

Lesson

Grades: 8, 11

In this lesson, students will analyze historical photographs of Fort Lamar and the Battle of Secessionville to understand the role of artillery during the Civil War. By comparing visuals with a...

What Makes Up a Grimké Sister?

Lesson

Grades: 8

Prior Knowledge Needed: Students should be able to comfortably make inferences about characters in stories they are reading (character traits, intentions, predictions, etc.) Students should be able to...

Girl Bill of Rights - Handout

Document

Grades: 5 8 11

This is an excellent video viewing document for Episode 1 of Sisterhood: SC Suffrage (Thee Grimke Sisters through the Civil War – Part 1). While viewing the video clip students can reflect and write...

Rollins and Grimké Sisters Venn Diagram Handout

Document

Grades: 4 5 8

Students can use this document to compare and contrast the Rollins Sisters and the Grimké Sisters while viewing both videos.

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...

Roots of Racism – Thinking Like a Historian about Racism | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

Video

Grades: 8 12

Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...

Women's Suffrage Movement Photo Gallery | History In A Nutshell

Photo

Grades: 4 5 8 11 Higher Education

This photo gallery includes the following: The 19th Amendment In the beginning, the Abolition and Women's Suffrage Movements were intertwined Frederick Douglass - A famous proponent of Women's...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

The Grimké sisters ran afoul of the Quakers as they embraced abolition and engaged in anti-slavery activities without permission. Angelina Grimké wrote a letter to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

Sarah and Angelina Grimké worked tirelessly for both abolition, and women’s suffrage. The Grimké sisters were the first to say, in print, that women deserved to live alongside men with an equal...

Women's Suffrage Movement, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The question of women's suffrage in the U.S. had been debated long before the movement's humble beginnings at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. Part 1 of this edition on the Women's Suffrage...

A PBL About South Carolina’s Reconstruction Constitutions

Lesson

Grades: 8

Students will examine Reconstruction from a legislative point of view and a social point of view using guiding questions and activities to examine the Reconstruction Constitutions of 1865, 1868, and...

Reflections of Columbia, Part 2

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8

In 1860, roughly 60% of the population in Columbia were slaves. 60% of the gross economic capital in South Carolina was in human property. With the growing popularity of the Republican Party, and...

Between The Waters, Part 4

Video

Grades: 4 8

The area of Georgetown went from one of the wealthiest districts prior to the Civil War, to one of the poorest. Lee Brockington, senior interpreter at Hobcaw Barony, discusses the impact of the ending...

Pages of History: Founding | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 8

On January 10, 1803, The Charleston Courier was launched by two federalist proprietors from Massachusetts: Aaron Smith Willington, and Loring Andrews, and from Ireland was Stephen Cullen Carpenter...