Block 1: Slavery and The Underground Railroad
Everyone:
Activity: Civil War Days: Discover the Past with Exciting Projects
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Who Owns the Sun?
Littles:
Everyone:
Activity: Civil War Days: Discover the Past with Exciting Projects
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Who Owns the Sun?
Littles:
Henry's Freedom Box
Middles:
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Middles:
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Block 2: Heroes of the Abolitionist Movement
Everyone:
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Littles:
Everyone:
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Littles:
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Bigs:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Read Aloud:
The Slave Dancer (Pre-read to see if this will work for your family.)
Bigs:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Read Aloud:
The Slave Dancer (Pre-read to see if this will work for your family.)
Block 3: The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Everyone:
Everyone:
Abe's Honest Words
Just a Few Words Mr. Lincoln--Fritz
Bigs:
Meet Abe Lincoln (Landmark Books) or Lincoln:A Photobiography
Read Aloud:
Just a Few Words Mr. Lincoln--Fritz
Bigs:
Meet Abe Lincoln (Landmark Books) or Lincoln:A Photobiography
Read Aloud:
Blocks 4 and 5: War Stories
Everyone:
Everyone:
Burnside and Sideburns
Middles:
Stonewall: Jean Fritz
The Legend of Old Abe: A Civil War Eagle
The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale
Bigs:
Middles:
Stonewall: Jean Fritz
The Legend of Old Abe: A Civil War Eagle
The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale
Bigs:
Blocks 6 and 7: Life During the War
Everyone:
Everyone:
Block 8: Reconstruction
Everyone:
Littles:
Everyone:
Littles:
Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Mystery
This is intended to be a summer study in our families. We will visit Civil War sites from Harper's Ferry to Bull Run to Appomatox. It is very likely we'll collect lots of postcards along the way. So, all our narrating will be in postcard form. We are going to use large sized index cards to narrate the stories we read, with prose on the front and pictures on the back. For the field trips, children can write on one side and then glue postcards on the picture side. When we have finished, the children will arange the cards in chronological order. Using packing tape, each card can be taped to the next one to make an accordian timeline. Place the cards side by side and place the clear packing tape over the edges of both cards with a little margin of tape between the two. You need tape on both the front and the back. Continue in this fashion, putting each card next to the one before it chronologically and joining them with packing tape. They will fold one on top of another, making a neat, portable record of this block. (I'll post pictures when we have them.)
If you can't go on a field trip in person, here is a link to all the National Civil War Parks. You can visit online.
This is intended to be a summer study in our families. We will visit Civil War sites from Harper's Ferry to Bull Run to Appomatox. It is very likely we'll collect lots of postcards along the way. So, all our narrating will be in postcard form. We are going to use large sized index cards to narrate the stories we read, with prose on the front and pictures on the back. For the field trips, children can write on one side and then glue postcards on the picture side. When we have finished, the children will arange the cards in chronological order. Using packing tape, each card can be taped to the next one to make an accordian timeline. Place the cards side by side and place the clear packing tape over the edges of both cards with a little margin of tape between the two. You need tape on both the front and the back. Continue in this fashion, putting each card next to the one before it chronologically and joining them with packing tape. They will fold one on top of another, making a neat, portable record of this block. (I'll post pictures when we have them.)
If you can't go on a field trip in person, here is a link to all the National Civil War Parks. You can visit online.
