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Standard 8.4.CX

8.4.CX Evaluate South Carolinians’ struggle to create an understanding of their post-Civil War position within the state, the country, and the world.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Robert Smalls | Carolina Snaps

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Robert Smalls was a former slave and Civil War hero who made a significant impact on American history. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839, Smalls worked on the docks and was trained...

Understanding the Reconstruction Era Amendments

Lesson

Grades: 8

Students will be able to analyze and interpret the meaning of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment and the impact it had on individuals and families in the Northern and Southern states in the United...

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...

What Makes A Grimké Sister? - Handout

Document

Grades: 5 8

With this handout students can use magazines, poster board, and any other creative things they can find to fill the silhouette with all the things that describe the Grimké Sisters.

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.

Grimké Sisters

Lesson

Grades: 8

The students will learn about the Grimke Sisters and their importance in history.

Penn Center Overview | Let's Go!

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

Penn Center is one of the most significant African American historical and cultural institutions in existence today. The historic campus is located on St. Helena Island, one of the most beautiful and...

Penn Center Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

Photo

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Penn Center, founded officially as the Penn School in 1865, is a campus of buildings dedicated to African American education in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The original school grew out of...

3D VR - Penn Center: Brick Church | Let's Go!

Interactive

Grades: 4 5 8 11

3D VR - Penn Center: Frissell Community House | Let's Go

Interactive

Grades: 4 5 8 11

After becoming Penn Community Center in 1953, the institution began to focus on social issues affecting the well-being of the native islanders. This expanded to African Americans as a whole in the...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

After the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, the Welds, along with Sarah Grimké, retreated to a farm in Belleville, New Jersey, where in 1839, the three produced a compendium on American...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

The pastoral letters, meant to crack down on the Grimké sisters’ activities, had the opposite effect. The Grimkés continued to grow in popularity, and their letters on women’s rights were among the...

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...

Reconstruction Unit

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8

18 day plan on Reconstruction - Performance task at the end

Bitter Sweets: Mapping Pineapples, Hospitality and Slavery

Lesson

Grades: 8

This lesson introduces students to historic primary and secondary source documents and geospatial technology to explore nineteenth-century slavery and trade between the Caribbean and United States...

"Pitchfork" Ben Tillman and Political Reform in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 8, 11

Students will analyze primary sources to discern the beliefs of Ben Tillman and his “Tillmanites” and how those beliefs and values affected Progressive era reforms.

Robert Smalls | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 4 8

REENACTMENT: The lesson focuses on a mission in which Robert Smalls was sent to convince President Lincoln to arm Negro troops in the South Carolina Lowcountry to fight for the Union. This is done in...

Reconstruction | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 4 8

The Reconstruction period will perhaps always be one of the most controversial in South Carolina's history. In this lesson we use a number of vignettes tied together, by the host, to present various...

Robert Smalls, Part 1 | The Big Picture

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

In this episode, host Alex Sanders, takes a look at a South Carolina Civil War hero, Robert Smalls. Smalls was born as an enslaved person in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. In 1851, Smalls was hired...

Belle Baruch and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Lesson

Grades: 8

Objectives Discover the history behind women’s suffrage Develop vocabulary related to civics and citizenship Make personal connections to suffrage history

Reconstruction | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

This show explains the importance of the election of 1876 and as a result how SC at one time had 2 governors from different political parties, who tried to rule the state at the same time...

Reconstruction Ends — A Collaborative PBL About Segregation and Harsh Discriminatory Southern Policies

Lesson

Grades: 8

During Reconstruction and the years following the end of Reconstruction, segregation and redemptive southern policies greatly affected the lives of African Americans. Use the background information...