Focus: Comparison of the US and CS and opening battles of the Civil War.
Unit Length: 3 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors and Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. compare and contrast the two sections and analyze its impact on the war.
2. understand and analyze the conduct of both sides in the early part of the war.
3. identify some of the main characters and battles of the opening stage of the war.
Lectures:
Union & CSA Advantages & Disadvantages
Contemporary View of Advantages & Disadvantages
War, Summer of 1861 & Manassas
McClellan & Union Blockade
War in West ('61-Spring '62) & East ('61)
Peninsula Campaign
Handouts:
CSA Conduct to December 1862
US Conduct through 1862
Video: Episodes of Ken Burns: The Civil War
Film: 1st Manassas
Assessment:
Participation
Test
Unit Length: 3 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors and Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. compare and contrast the two sections and analyze its impact on the war.
2. understand and analyze the conduct of both sides in the early part of the war.
3. identify some of the main characters and battles of the opening stage of the war.
Lectures:
Union & CSA Advantages & Disadvantages
Contemporary View of Advantages & Disadvantages
War, Summer of 1861 & Manassas
McClellan & Union Blockade
War in West ('61-Spring '62) & East ('61)
Peninsula Campaign
Handouts:
CSA Conduct to December 1862
US Conduct through 1862
Video: Episodes of Ken Burns: The Civil War
Film: 1st Manassas
Assessment:
Participation
Test