Reading Writing

1. Read Who Was Ulysses S. Grant by 1. Write a short story about Media Literacy Speaking/Listening Grammar
Megan Stine and create an acrostic poem the first day for students at 1.Watch BrainPop 1. Listen to an audio of 1. Evaluate a
using his name. (VL) a Freedmens School in the video on Ulysses S. Grants first partners short story
South. Include details Reconstruction and inaugural address and (writing segment)
2. Read the article: about what life was like summarize important discuss how he viewed and proofread to
http://www.american- after the Civil War. facts in video. the Fifteenth find grammatical
historama.org/1866-1881-reconstruction- https://www.brainpop Amendment as a class. errors.
era/civil-rights-act-1875.htm .com/socialstudies/us https://www.youtube.co
Then, discuss with a partner your history/reconstruction m/watch?v=BGMhazIa
findings. / LqU (VL)

Social Studies The Effects of

1. Pre/Post Test (VL) Math
Reconstruction on
American Life 1. Plan a budget for the Freedmens
2. Describe the different ways people could Bureau with your group. Make a list of
communicate and travel in 1865. Create a poster several projects the Bureau could fund,
comparing communication and travel in 1865 and
Fourth Grade
such as job training or new health clinics.
today. (INTER)
Caitlin McFalls Create a circle graph indicating how much
Lauren Bell the Bureau will devote to each project.
3. Create a timeline of the important events of (VS) (VL) (LM)
Reconstruction.

4. Imagine being in Washington D.C. at the time of Science
Lincolns assassination. Write a paragraph on what 1. Explain who George
plans for Reconstruction you expect Johnson will Washington Carver was
make. (INTRA) and describe the
inventions he discovered.
5. Analyze the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and Choose an invention and
construct a graphic organizer with information on each create a poster about it to
amendment. display around the room.
(VS)
6. Select at least three Jim Crow laws and create a table
comparing them. 2. George Washington
Carver introduced
7. Produce a venn diagram that compares and contrasts Southern farmers to new
Dred Scott v. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson crops such as the sweet
potato and peanuts.
8. Collect information on Booker T. Washington using Analyze with group
library resources and then construct a web of his members on how plants
contributions to the African American community.
such as these play a role
with the flow of energy in
9. Create a presentation about a significant event that an ecosystem. (NA)
occurred during the Reconstruction era. (VS)
Fine Arts
1. Music-Listen to different songs
during the Reconstruction era and
create your own song.
http://www.library.pitt.edu/voicesacro
sstime/come-all-
ye/ti/2006/Song%20Activities/0405P
ekarWhittakerWorkSongs.html (MR)
2. Art- Create a poster that might
have appeared in the 1870s to raise
money for a new African American
school. (VS) (BK)
3. Drama- Evaluate Congresss
actions during Reconstruction and act
out a scene in which Congress hold a
debate about this issue. (VL) (BK)
2. Interpret the map showing the 1868
presidential election and construct a graph
that portrays the percentage of people who
voted for Grant versus Seymour.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co
mmons/thumb/c/ce/ElectoralCollege1868.
svg/350px-ElectoralCollege1868.svg.png
(LM) (VS)
Key
Visual-spatial (VS)
Verbal-linguistic (VL)
Musical Rhythmic (MR)
Naturalistic (NA)
Logical Mathematical (LM)
Interpersonal (INTER)
Intrapersonal (INTRA)
Bodily Kinesthetic (BK)