Project Directions
This project will require you to research life during the Civil War and explain how life changed because of it. This project will give you many choices, but the most important part is to make sure you give adequate information and back up your reasoning.
Directions
1. Choose your character
You will choose to follow the life of ONE of the following people of the Civil War:
2. Choose your path
You will have to give some background information on your character:
Next you will discuss the choices they made during the war:
IF THE EVENT OCCURRED IN AN AREA/SITUATION THAT YOUR CHARACTER WAS A PART OF YOU MUST EXPLAIN IF YOUR CHARACTER PARTICIPATED IN THE EVENT AND EXPLAIN WHY OR WHY NOT.
3. Explain your outcome
You may chose to present this information in any format you chose. You may write an essay, create a PowerPoint/Prezi, make a timeline, or a short film. All aspects of this project muse be answered in the format you choose. If you would like to use a format that is not listed ask me and I will make the final decision.
Directions
1. Choose your character
You will choose to follow the life of ONE of the following people of the Civil War:
- A free black man/woman in the North
- A slave man/woman in the South
- A child from the North or South
- A white man from the North or South
- A white woman from the North or South
2. Choose your path
You will have to give some background information on your character:
- What does he/she do for a living? Examples: slave, soldier, farmer, cook, weaver, etc
- How does the job affect their life?
- How did slavery affect the lives of slaves? What did they have to live through (whippings, no money, etc)?
- How does being a soldier/weaver/cook/ anything else affect their life?
- What is it like where they live? North vs the South. What state?
Next you will discuss the choices they made during the war:
- What side are they on during the Civil War?
- Confederacy or Union? WHY?
- Do they join the war as a soldier? Why or why not?
- How does the war change their life? Do they participate in any major events?
- Do they join Nat Turner’s Rebellion? Why or Why not?
- Does reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin change their opinion of slavery? Do they even read it?
- Do they fight in any major battles?
- Do they participate in Bleeding Kansas?
- What is their opinion of the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
- Do they participate in John Brown’s raid?
- Do they vote for Lincoln?
IF THE EVENT OCCURRED IN AN AREA/SITUATION THAT YOUR CHARACTER WAS A PART OF YOU MUST EXPLAIN IF YOUR CHARACTER PARTICIPATED IN THE EVENT AND EXPLAIN WHY OR WHY NOT.
3. Explain your outcome
- How did the Civil War/Reconstruction ultimately change your life?
- Did you gain or lose any rights?
- Did anything happen to the land you lived on?
- Did you decide to relocate?
- Anything else?
You may chose to present this information in any format you chose. You may write an essay, create a PowerPoint/Prezi, make a timeline, or a short film. All aspects of this project muse be answered in the format you choose. If you would like to use a format that is not listed ask me and I will make the final decision.