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Wednesday, 9/26
• Please open your notebook to the Unit Learning Map – We’re Organizing!
Closer – 9/26: Rank the Plans!
Make a scale like the one below
Easy on Hard on
The Souththe South
Identify and explain where you would note the three plans (Lincoln, Johnson, and Radical Republicans of Congress)
Tues. 9/25
• Please pick up “The Road to Freedom” packet and highlighter if you need one.
• Read through it and await further instructions.
• Look through “The Road to Freedom” packet and highlight parts of the comic (words or pictures) that show that the Freedmen are not equal after Emancipation.
Monday, 9/24
• Drop –off last week’s warm-up/closer worksheet and pick-up a new one.
• Pick-up a small sheet with quotes on it.• For each quote, identify who might
have said it and why it might have been stated.
• “The Yankee freed you. Now let the Yankee feed you.”
• “I felt like a bird out of a cage. Amen. Amen.”
• “We have turned loose 4 million slaves without a …cent in their pockets.”
• “White men must manage the south.”
• “There is nothing else I know anything about except managing a plantation.”
Three Questions About Fountain Hughes
• What freedoms did he experience?
• What limitations did he experience?
• What might be Fountain’s opinion of Reconstruction?
Closer – 9/24
Friday 9/21
Write the following statement for today’s warm-up. Fill-in the
blanks with your own idea. An example follows
Reconstruction is like _____________, because
_______________________.
Reconstruction is like my bedroom, because
it didn’t take long to make it messy, but it will take a long time to clean!
Closer 9/21 – Text Messages
• Write one text message regarding the start of Reconstruction from:
– Plantation Owner to Plantation Owner,– Poor White to Poor White, and– Freedman to Freedman
Thursday, 9/20
Drop off your take home essay in the bin!
• It is April 1865. The Civil War is over. You are the President. Answer the following question:
What issues do you face regarding Reconstruction?
Closer 9/20 – “War/Peace”
• Using your own words and in a paragraph, explain the meaning of this activity and how it relates to the Reconstruction Period.