6th Grade Curriculum

Unit: Civil War & Reconstruction (PDF - Printable Version)

Highlighted Questions - Thematic Essential Questions focused on during this unit.

Civil War Unit Website

 

GSTEQ

History Alive!

Textbook

Supplemental

Assessments

Standards

1. Why do people live and move where they do?

Ch. 18 “The Causes of the Civil War”

Ch. 19 “The Civil War”

 

Picture Book: Follow the Drinking Gourd

Nystrom pg. 62-63 “The U.S. Before the Civil War”

 

RIGSE: 5-1 – Many ways Earth’s people are interconnected

RIGSE: 5-2 – Interconnected World

RIGSE: 5-3 – Choices Interconnected world

RIGSE HP 2

NSH Era 3:1, 2, 3 (Proclamation)

NSH Era 4: 1,2
NSH Era 5: 1, 2

NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

2. Why do people live the way they do?

 

 

Book: Shades of Grey

Leveled Reader: Wake Up, Young Soldier

 

RIGSE G&C 1-4
RIGSE HP 1-3

NSH Era 3: 1, 2, 3
NSH Era 4: 1,2,4
NSH Era 5: 1,2
NSH Era 6: 1,2,3,4

3. How and why do human societies organize the way they do?

 

 

Leveled Reader: I Care: American Reformers

Leveled Reader: “What shall workers do?”

 

RIGSE – G&C 1-2, 4

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3
NSH Era 4: 1,2,3,4

NSH Era 5: 1,2,3
NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

4. How does technology affect people’s lives?

Ch. 18 “The Causes of the Civil War”

Ch. 19 “The Civil War”

 

Leveled Reader: Mighty Ironclads

 

RIGSE – G&C 5

RIGSE – HP1

NSH Era 6: 1,3

NSH Era 4: 2
NSH Era 5: 2

5. How has conflict and cooperation shaped human history?

Ch. 18 “The Causes of the Civil War”

Ch. 19 “The Civil War”

Ch. 12 “Causes of the Civil War”

Nystrom Atlas: pg. 64-65 “The Civil War Begins” Pg. 66-67 “The Civil War Continues” Pg. 68-9 “The War Ends: Reconstruction Follows”

Book: Night John by Gary Paulson

Book: Soldiers Heart

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,3,5

RIGSE – HP1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3
NSH Era 4: 1,2

 

6. How has the quest for resources affected human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2
NSH Era 4: 1,2

NSH Era 5: 1, 2,3
NSH Era 6: 1, 2, 3,4

7. How do we know what we know about human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era (All)
HTS – 3,4

8. Why do civilizations rise & decline?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3

NSH Era 4: 1,2,3

NSH Era 5: 1,2,3
NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

 

Book:

Eyewitness: Civil War (Anne Marie)

Unit Assessment:

State Legislative Hearing on whether or not to secede from the nation:

Persuasive Speech from role involved in groups or individual:

  1. Slaves
  2. Plantation owner
  3. Northern factor owner
  4. Factor worker/immigrant
  5. etc…

 

All are legislative delegates taking notes on graphic organizer (T-chart), then Accountable Talk. Then Ballot (“Take it out the door” = closure)