Overview

The U.S. Civil War was one of the most devastating wars in the history of the United States. It often pitted brother vs. brother over issues that we now consider obvious. During this project, groups of students will create informational booklets that discuss a specific battle and it's impact on the war, a non-battle event that occurred related to the war, and a person important during this critical period in this our nations history.

Final Product

Each team will create a four page brochure that focuses on a specific battle, a non-related event and an important figure. They will write an article for their booklet on each of these topics. They must also include creative titles, one image per article, a map and a combined bibliography from the information gathered for all of the articles and images.

Purpose: Students will learn about the geography and history of the Civil War.  They will prepare a four page brochure to convince others of the importance of their selected battle, event and person.

Grading: This project is worth 90 points based on the brochures content, grammar and images. View the grading rubric for this project: civil war booklet.pdf

Process: Students will form into groups of three or four students each, and then select one of the topic groups listed below. In groups, students will divide responsibilities in order to create the booklet. Booklet's should include: appropriate titles for the booklet and articles, three articles (one each on a battle, event and biography), at least one image per article, a map of the battle or where it took place, and a list of sources used.

Bibliography:

• ALL sources used must be included
• MLA format must be used
• I highly recommend using the Citation Machine to create your citations. It can be found at http://elementary.oslis.org/resources/cm/mlacitationss

Topics: Students must answer these questions in their brochures:

• What was the importance of the battle on the war effort for the North and South?
• Describe the details of the event and it's effect on the country.
• What was the persons role in the Civil War? 

Due Date: Work must be completed by class on Friday, June 3, 2011.

Topic Groups:

Expectations:

• Participation:
• Each student in the group will participate equally in the creation of the pamphlet, specifically, research and writing will be equally shared among all members.
• Each student will take responsibility for editing the work of other group members.
• Participation on this assignment will have a major impact on the final grade. Participation will be determined by the amount of work initially entered by each student, the edits completed by each student and input by partners during the final assessment.
• Behavior:
• No crude or inappropriate language/words or multimedia will be used in any of the pages of this wiki.
• Students may only work on assigned pages, they may not edit the work of students in another group.
• Students are encouraged to make comments on the work of other groups, but may not use put-downs, crude language. Comments should be in the form of positive encouragement. ex: "I really like you page, but you might consider underlining key portions of the text."
• Check out the Wiki Etiquette page in the resources folder for more information.