Focus: Study of the transition to total warfare and its effects on society.
Unit Length: 5.5 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors and Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. understand and analyze the impact of total war on both sides and its effect on society and the US.
2. interpret the impact of the issue of emancipation upon the war and society
3. identify some of the main characters and battles that marked this transition to total war.
Lectures:
2nd Manassas
Antietam
Emancipation
Lincoln and Reconstruction
Military actions November 1862 to January 1863
Battle of Chancellorsville
Brandy Station and Gettysburg
Vicksburg Campaign
Chickamauga & Chattanooga
Union High Point (end of 1863-beginning of 1864
Handouts:
1863-A New War: A Total War (Union)
Confederate Society Through 1863
1863-A New War: A Total War (Confederate)
Video: Episodes of Ken Burns: The Civil War
Film:
Gettysburg
The Hunley
Assessment:
Participation
Reaction Papers
Test
Unit Length: 5.5 Weeks
Grade Level: Juniors and Seniors
Student Outcomes:
1. understand and analyze the impact of total war on both sides and its effect on society and the US.
2. interpret the impact of the issue of emancipation upon the war and society
3. identify some of the main characters and battles that marked this transition to total war.
Lectures:
2nd Manassas
Antietam
Emancipation
Lincoln and Reconstruction
Military actions November 1862 to January 1863
Battle of Chancellorsville
Brandy Station and Gettysburg
Vicksburg Campaign
Chickamauga & Chattanooga
Union High Point (end of 1863-beginning of 1864
Handouts:
1863-A New War: A Total War (Union)
Confederate Society Through 1863
1863-A New War: A Total War (Confederate)
Video: Episodes of Ken Burns: The Civil War
Film:
Gettysburg
The Hunley
Assessment:
Participation
Reaction Papers
Test