Title of Unit: The Civil War Title of Lesson: Chapter 13, Lesson 3- The War Ends Submitted By:

Caitlin and Julia

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: This is the 3rd lesson of Chapter 13, the second portion in a Civil War unit. During this lesson, students will describe the events and individuals who participated in the end of the Civil War. Students will use the Houghton Mifflin 5th grade Social Studies textbook: Unites States History, pages 466-469 for this lesson. B. Target Population: Grade Level: 5th grade Skill Level: at grade level Grouping: whole group discussion, pair reading and independent work C. Materials: Houghton Mifflin 5th grade Social Studies textbook: United States History, pages 466-469 Social Studies textbook Pencils Computer paper Colored Pencils D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o H 2.5.2- Describe issues of compromise and conflict within the United States

Student-Friendly Standards Students will explain various factors and events that helped the Union defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.

E. Procedure: 1. Open the lesson by asking students to think about why having enough supplies is important in completing a task 2. Discuss with students that the Union had more supplies and soldiers than the Confederacy which helped them win the Civil War 3. Introduce vocabulary words. Students will write words and definitions in the vocabulary section in their social studies journals. Definitions are on page T466. o o o Telegraph Total war Desert

4. Allow students to pair read pages 466-469 in textbooks

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Title of Unit: The Civil War Title of Lesson: Chapter 13, Lesson 3- The War Ends Submitted By: Caitlin and Julia

5. Have a group discussion about the pages read. Allow students to table talk and share their responses with the whole group. Use prompts to guide discussions: o o o o What happened in the pages you read? Key events? What was General Grants plan to end the war? Why do you think the Union succeeded at winning the Civil War? What events occurred at the end of the war?

6. After learning about the end of the war, students will create a newspaper headline and short article that will describe what people on the home front would read about when the war ended. o Headlines can be directed towards the North or the South, but need to be accurate based on events in the text. o Should include information and quotes from the reading content (present and past lessons) o At least one illustration should be included that supports information in newspaper article 7. CLOSURE: When students complete their newspaper headline and article, they will write a brief paragraph in their social studies journals answering the following prompt: List various events of the Civil war and give details about each. State why you believe the end of the war was so important. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will use informal assessment through table talks and discussions, newspaper activity and the journal response to measure student understanding. Discussions should be on topic with detailed information from text. The newspaper activity will be assessed based on accuracy and completion and use of information from the text connecting information. Journal response will be assessed based on accuracy and details included in response. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will know students have good understanding of the concepts within this lesson when they can effectively explain significant individuals and key events in the ending of the Civil War. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think this entire lesson will be fairly easy to teach. The ending of something such as war is usually a pleasant subject to teach with easy understanding.
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Title of Unit: The Civil War Title of Lesson: Chapter 13, Lesson 3- The War Ends Submitted By: Caitlin and Julia

2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? The challenging part of this lesson to teach might be the differences in individuals who had an impact on the end of the Civil War. Some of these names might not be familiar to students and differentiating between individuals might be confusing for some students. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? We will continue to discuss the end of the war throughout the remaining portion of the unit and how it affected life after the war. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? Misconceptions and questions will be answered throughout the lesson to help students who do not understand the content. If students need to work in a small group or with me individually, that will be accommodated for better understanding. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? There are a lot of fun activities that students can do for this lesson and the end of the Civil War. I dont think I would change anything but possibly a different form of activity that allows students to portray what soldiers and civilians were feeling when the war ended. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? This is the 3rd lesson for this unit and I am pretty comfortable writing these lessons now. There wasnt really a difficult part of this lesson to write.

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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