Civil War Images Lesson By: Chris Taylor Photo From The Library
of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?ils:1:./temp/
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Slide 2
Introduction Photographs and images bombard us every day. Think
about how we can easily take a photograph of our friends, our cat,
or a sporting event with just a click of the cell phone. Obviously,
this has not always been the case. The Civil War, also known as the
War Between the States, was the first major conflict that the
camera was utilized to record history. General Robert E Lee Photo
From The Library of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/
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Slide 3
Task Instead of just reading about the Civil War, you will look
at the war through the eye of the camera. This will allow you to
see the different parts of the war as it truly was. True, these are
black and white pictures but it will allow you to put real people
to the tragedy of our worst war as a nation. The ironclad: Monitor
Photo From the Library of Congress:
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Photo From the Library of Congress:
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Slide 4
Process First: Go to
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html
Click on Taking Photographs in the Civil War and read about the Wet
Plate Process. Next: Go back to
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html
Click on Mathew Brady-Biographical Note and quickly research the
life of the most famous photographer of the Civil War. Mathew Brady
Photo From the Library of Congress:
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Brady Photo From the Library of Congress:
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Process Continued Thirdly, you will create a PowerPoint or
Webpage of at least 10 different Civil War photographs about 10
different topics. Provide a caption of what the photograph is and
also provide a reference of where the image was located (just like
what has been done throughout this lesson with the pictures). The
Monitor on the James River Photo from Library of Congress:
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Monitor on the James River Photo from Library of Congress:
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Slide 6
Process Continued Fourthly, to find the images for this
presentation you will utilize the wonderful collection at the
Library of Congress. Go back to
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html
Click on Search this Collection. Use the People, Places, Events,
and Terms for Unit 12 to search. Most terms will have a photo that
corresponds to it. If it does not, choose another term. Or, you can
go to http://www.loc.gov/index.html to
search.http://www.loc.gov/index.html The terms are on the next
slide.. Blockade Runner From the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/
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1:m856sd=cwpb:m856sf=03819:@@@ Blockade Runner From the Library of
Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/
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Slide 7
Process Continued: Terms American Red Cross Clara Barton Rose
Greenhow Belle Boyd Dorothea Dix 54th Massachusetts 1st Battle Of
Bull Run Gen. Robert E. Lee Gen. Stonewall Jackson Blockade
Runners, Ironclad Gen. George B. McClellan Army Of The Potomac
Monitor Vs. Merrimack Battle Of Shiloh, Battle Of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation Battle Of Gettysburg Gen. George Pickett
Gen. George Meade Gettysburg Address General Ulysses S. Grant Gen.
Tecumseh Sherman Appomattox Court House If you can think of other
terms, please be sure to ask me if you can research that term
before doing so. If you can think of other terms, please be sure to
ask me if you can research that term before doing so. Appomattox
Courthouse From the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/pnp/
habshaer/va/va0200/va0242/photos&topImages=163808pr.jpg&topLinks=163808pv.jpg,163808pu.tif&title=5.%20%20
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HABS%20VA,6-APPO,6-5&displayProfile=0 Appomattox Courthouse
From the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/pnp/
habshaer/va/va0200/va0242/photos&topImages=163808pr.jpg&topLinks=163808pv.jpg,163808pu.tif&title=5.%20%20
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Slide 8
Evaluation To finish the PowerPoint presentation or Webpage, of
the ten images or photos that you found pick your top three. Put
them on an extra slide or a different part of the webpage and
explain the following: What parts of the image did you find
interesting? Why was each image in your top 3 images? How was the
topic of each of your top 3 images important to the Civil War?
Slide 9
Conclusion Now that you have investigated the Civil War through
the eye of the camera, you are ready for the final part of this
lesson. Go back to http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html Click on Solving a
Civil War Photograph Mystery. Go through the process and include
your answer in the final slide of your PowerPoint. General Grant
From the Library of Congress:
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Slide 10
Internet Safety and Copyright My district if very particular
with Internet Safety. It is to the point that we as teachers are
not allowed to defragment our computers. Therefore, Google images
is blocked on our computers not to mention YouTube and others. With
that in mind, I have limited this activity to the safe confines of
the Library of Congress webpage. It has a great collection of Civil
War images and I do not have to worry about the safety issues as
much with it. I addressed the copyright issue earlier in the
presentation for the students. They will be required to cite where
they copied the images from for their presentations.