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Global Perspectives on the Civil War

The lesson plan has 8th grade students read and discuss selections from two textbooks about the causes of the Civil War to understand how geography and sources can lead to different perspectives, then compares the textbooks' reasons for the war and discusses the fluidity of history using a video about the Lost Cause myth; students will write a paragraph on why understanding sources is important in history.

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Global Perspectives on the Civil War

The lesson plan has 8th grade students read and discuss selections from two textbooks about the causes of the Civil War to understand how geography and sources can lead to different perspectives, then compares the textbooks' reasons for the war and discusses the fluidity of history using a video about the Lost Cause myth; students will write a paragraph on why understanding sources is important in history.

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OUT Lesson Plan

Teacher:

Title: What the Civil War Meant Across the World

Subject: U.S. History

Grade Level: 8th Grade

RULE §113.20 (b)(1)(8)(B) explain the central role of the expansion of slavery in causing
TEKS:
sectionalism, disagreement over states' rights, and the Civil War;

Students will...
 Understand how geopolitical diversity effects the perceptions of the same events
Learning Objectives:
 Understand how we should not rely on a singular source when interpreting history
 Investigate what motifs can be behind the discrepancies in perceptions
 What are some differences you noticed when reading the different sources?
Essential Question(s):  Why do you think those differences are recorded the way they are?
 How do you think those differences can be consolidated?

Essential Vocabulary: Succession, Halifax, Montreal, Trent, The Lost Cause Myth, James Buchanan, "Crittenden's
Compromise," Habeas Corpus, Land-Grant College Act.
Lidaman and Ward, History Lessons How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S.
History: Chapter 13 Civil War
The American YAWP A Massive Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook: Chapter 14
Resources/Materials:
The Civil War
Youtube:Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!
[Link]
Procedures: Students will be divided into two groups and assigned to read and discuss
selected sections in the textbooks. Group 1 will read selections in "History
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Lessons" and group 2 will read from "The American Yawp."
15min

After students have read their assigned reading as a group, each group will
then summarize what they understand to be the main reasons for the Civil Time:10mi
War. n

After both groups have given their main reasons we will as a class then
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compare and contrast the differences in the texts and discuss what those
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differences mean in relation to their origin.

Students will then watch a 5 minute clip from "Is Civil War History Being Time:5mi
REWRITTEN" concerning the idea of the Lost Cause and relate the fluidity of n
telling history between all the materials.
OUT Lesson Plan

Assessment: Students will finally write a small paragraph about why it is important to Time:5mi
understand sources and their origins when it comes to studying anything in n
history.

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