82 The U.S. Civil War|Pausing Point

Note to Teacher

Your students have now heard several read-alouds about the

time and events leading up to the U.S. Civil War and about some

important people of this time. You may choose to pause here and

spend one to two days reviewing, reinforcing, or extending the

material taught thus far.

If you do pause, you may have students do any combination of

the activities listed below. The activities may be done in any order.

You may wish to do one activity on successive days. You may also

choose to do an activity with the whole class or with a small group

of students who would benefi t from the particular activity.

Core Content Objectives Up to This Pausing Point

Students will:

 Demonstrate familiarity with slavery and the controversy over

slavery in the United States

 Describe the life and contributions of Harriet Tubman

 Identify the Underground Railroad as a system of escape for

enslaved Africans in the United States

 Demonstrate familiarity with the poems “Harriet Tubman” and

“Lincoln”

 Demonstrate familiarity with the song “Follow the Drinking

Gourd”

 Differentiate between the North and the South

 Describe the adult life and contributions of Abraham Lincoln

 Differentiate between the Union and the Confederacy and the

states associated with each

 Describe why the southern states seceded from the United

States

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