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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

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 Robert Smalls | Carolina Snaps
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
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?
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
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
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.
Grimké Sisters
Grimké Sisters

Lesson

Grades: 8

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

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

Interactive

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...
 The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War 4
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 3
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 2
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 1
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...
 Robert Smalls | Palmetto Special
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
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 1
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...
 Reconstruction | Palmetto Heritage
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...