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Unit Five: The Civil War

Nov 17: Intro Unit 5; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Spirituals; assign The Red Badge of Courage
Nov 20: Secession and Fort Sumter: the Civil War begins
Nov 21: Emily Dickinson
Nov 27: Military strategies and foreign diplomacy: Battles of Bull Run and Shiloh with
accompanying Melville poems
Nov 28: Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war: from the Proclamation to
the Gettysburg Address
Nov 29: Field Trip to Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
Nov 30: The Fireside Poets
Dec 1: The social and political effect of war on the North, South, and West War
Dec 4: Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and other selections; biography on Whitman
Dec 5: ***Neighborhood Paper Due***; War—the end-game; Lincoln’s vision of
Reconstruction; scenes from Lincoln
Dec 6: Intro of second semester essay project/book assignments
Dec 7: Lincoln’s second inaugural and death; poetry dedicated to Lincoln
Dec 8: The Red Badge of Courage (exam prep for essay)
Dec 11: Review for Exam
Dec 12: Review for Exam
EXAM:
Friday, December 15th, 1st exam

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