Monday/Tuesday January 26-27 Bellringer Prompt/thought: Your 13 Year old child runs away for a few days after complaining they are tired of living under your rules. After a few days they come back home. How do you react? hard on them, easy, forgiving, punishment?
Work through Videos and Tasks on Discovery Ed boards: see link below Part I Assignment 1: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments: A- find the date it was passed, what does the Amendment do B- Write a paragraph response as if you were a Northerner, Southerner/Freedman or Former slave - about how you feel about this new law and how it will change things.
Assignment 2: Positive Changes for Freed Slaves and the South: Make a Graphic Organizer like the one below listing some of the good things that happened to rebuild and start a fresh new life in the South for those that stayed
Assignment 3: Life Change/Shift in the Southern Economy A)Now that slavery was over, how did the South begin to embrace industry and new ways to make money? list some examples B) How was life different for freed slaves who stayed in the south? Compare and contrastSharecropping to Tenant Farming- C) Find and copy OR Make a map of the Migration of Free blacks to the North called "the Great Migration" what big cities did they move to in the North and how did that change things?
Wednesday/Thursday January 28-29 Part II. White Resistance to Reconstruction
Assignment 4: What is a Black Code? Find and write down 5 black code laws in Southern states. Explain why whites would have used these laws to keep power .
Assignment 5: Klu Klux Klan or KKK When and Why was this group formed? How did it impact the success of Reconstruction?
Assignment 6: How did Reconstruction end? What deal did the white leaders in the South make with President Hayes? explain
Friday January 30
Extra Credit: : How much does a super bowl commercial cost and name a company with a commercial this year?
Check assignments 4-6, discuss key points Quiz- see below
Question 1: Abraham Lincoln said in a speech about his plans for reconstruction:
..."charity(forgiveness) for all and malice(anger) towards none" A- what did he mean? B- did that happen or not?
Question 2: Discuss the impact of one of the 13, 14, 15th amendments on the South?
Question 3: Pick one of the ways life improved for Freed slaves after the war?
Question 4: Describe a black code and briefly discuss the purpose of these in local and state communities.
Questions 5: What are things the KKK did to keep free slaves from being equal during Reconstruction.