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==Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons==


 * 1) [] This webpage has primary source (photographs) accompanied by a secondary source articles describing several local people who served in the Civil War.
 * 2) [] This page has photographs of the flags for various units from Pennsylvania that were active during the Civil War.
 * 3) [|History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5] This site ahs a scanned copy of a book published in 1869 that lists the various regiments from Pennsylvania, describes their activities and lists the members of the regiment.
 * 4) [|A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies]: Described as “the most comprehensive, authoritative, and voluminous reference on Civil War operations,” this searchable online document provides a great amount of information about the Civil War.
 * 5) [|The Valley of the Shadow]: This website is composed of letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census and church records for two cities – one in Pennsylvania, the other in Virginia. [|This page] within the site has links to diaries and letters from the Pennsylvania city.
 * 6) [|http://www.pacivilwartrails.com/stories:]This website also has links to letters, diaries and stories of Pennsylvania residents during the Civil War.

Learning Activity 4-D-1: Local Photos and Posters
[] “The Union must and shall be preserved” This poster advertises a meeting in Montgomery County, PA, for Pennsylvania residents to support the U. S. Government in the Civil War.

[] This website has several Pennsylvania Civil War posters. One is recruiting “100 Good Men wanted, No Boys Need Apply”, another is requesting blankets for soldiers in a PA regiment.

[] This blog has several photographs of the Ringgold Regiment. This blog also looks like it has some valuable secondary source information about Pennsylvania troops during the Civil War.

[] Photos from the Historical Society of Phoenixville, PA.

[] photos of Pennsylvania regiments are found within this collection.

Books: []

Women in the War Effort [] .

==Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music==

Audio re-recording of the Gettysburg address []

Captain Finch’s Quickstep [] A brass band audio recording from the Civil War era – would be good background music for my project.

We’ll Rally Round the Flag Boys One of the most famous Civil War songs, it was written for the Union, but the Confederacy also adopted it because the message meant as much to them as to the Union.

When Johnny Comes Marching Home [] and a better quality recording: Another well-known Civil War song.

Civil War re-enactments: There are many Civil War re-enactments found on YouTube. Short action/video clips will be a nice addition to photographs in my project.

From the PA Civil War 150 Road Show, this video discusses Pennsylvania’s African American population and their involvement in the Civil War. []

==Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps==

[|http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/videos#america-divided] – from the History Channel – this page contains a series of videos that may be useful to get background information about the Civil War.

[] - these short (15 sec.) video clips could be very useful to see just a glimpse of Civil War life. What does a camp look like, what was it like to fight a battle on horseback, etc. A student could watch a clip quickly to get inspiration for their assignment.

[] – a lot of reenactment clips

[] Another reenactment video

[] – Female heroines of the Civil War includes women who served as spies, women who disguised themselves as men to join the war

==Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project==

My project can be found on my wiki: Civil War Stories project

This project would be a part of my computer class coordinated with a unit on the Civil War from their history class. It is so easy to look a war as just that, not thinking about individuals and how they are affected by war. This project will have students think about those individuals as they create a work of fiction based on primary sources and what they have learned in their history class.

My introduction will start by asking students what they found most interesting in the Civil War unit in their history class. Then I’ll share a story about my ancestors:

My ancestor lived in Alabama but fought for the union. He was conscripted by the confederate army, but escaped at his first chance. He and several friends went over to the union army at that time. There is also a story about their farm. Both armies were in the area and when an army came to a farm, they would take everything. So when my family knew they were nearing, they butchered all their pigs. They dug a hole near the wood pile, lined it and put the meat there. Then they moved the wood pile on top of it. When the army came, they wanted to know where their pigs were – they could see the pig pens and knew they raised pigs. They looked everywhere, but didn’t find anything and my family was able to keep their food.

Imagine the stories that have been lost. We know about the battles, the generals, but not a lot about the individuals. Fortunately there are photos, letters and diaries that do tell stories of the Civil War and that is what we will be looking at in this project.

The conclusion will be to have a time to showcase all the students’ projects. They will have the opportunity to comment on classmates’ projects. We’ll invite the history teacher to be involved in the showcase.

Works Cited: LuAnn, I love the idea of presenting your information through a Wiki-based assignment. I completed mine through a WebQuest document and really regret doing so because I think the Wiki format would have been much more beneficial. Your ability to post actual videos and documents to the wiki makes it so much easier for students to learn and explore the given tasks through any computer. A big obstacle I found with the WebQuest is that the students have to complete it from a computer that alread has the worksheets and given documents saved to it for it to work correctly or they have to download the entire zip folder with each given document. The wiki allows the documents to be saved there and easily accessed through any computer, which I love. You organized the information very well and demonstrated a great link between a computer class and teh Civil War's history. You have explained a great way of presenting this wiki to your classes, as well. I think your students will really enjoy learning through this method. -Tara

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