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8.4.CX Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

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...

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...

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

What Reconstruction Meant to Freedwomen | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8

Under slavery many African-American women had to work as field hands, or in the slave owners’ homes, doing domestic chores and raising the white children. Freedom meant that black women became...

The Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The Freedmen’s Bureau had responsibility for every aspect of the lives of formerly enslaved people, and was in charge of land that came under federal control during and after the Civil War. In 1872...

White Landowners and the Transition to Free Labor | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

After the war, the South, and the nation, faced the question of how to make the transition from slave to free labor. Most former slave owners insisted that they should get their land back and maintain...

Freewoods Farm | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12

Reconstruction 360 is built on a 360 degree video platform that features a reenactment set on a farm in 1865. The reenactment was shot at Freewoods Farm, a living farm museum in the Freewoods...

The Impact of Reconstruction on Children’s Lives | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Enslaved people did not have full rights to their children, or control over their lives. When freedom came, parents could take an active role in the upbringing of their children, leading to stronger...

Forty Acres and a Mule | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Historian Kate Masur explains the origins of 40 Acres and a Mule, a famous phrase that many have heard but may not fully understand. It originated in the early days of Reconstruction, when General...

The Importance of Land to Freedpeople | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Freed blacks in the United States believed the government had a plan to distribute land to them, and that they were entitled to it. General Sherman’s Field Order 15 gave them small plots of farmland...