movie could be about the whole Reconstruction time period in general, or about a specific part (new amendments, Freedmens Bureau, sharecropping, voting rights for African Americans, Jim Crow laws, etc.). Upload final product to SeeSaw.
Effects of Reconstruction (see the exemplar in folder)
Take 1 sheet of white paper and a half a sheet of construction paper. Write the title reconstruction on the white paper. Fold construction paper in half and cut up the middle leaving about 1 inch uncut. Glue the 1 inch side of construction paper to the white paper; this should create 2 flaps. Label one flap Positive Effects. label the other flap Negative effects. Under each flap write the effects that Reconstruction had on the people and the economy. Upload final product to SeeSaw.
Monologue: Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown
Use Mackinvia to read biographies of Harriet Beecher Stowe or John Brown. Portray your character in a one person-play known as a monologue. You should describe the key event of your character (Harpers Ferry Raid (John Brown) or Uncle Toms Cabin) as well as the effect each event had on the Civil War. Upload final product to SeeSaw.
Civil War/Reconstruction ABC Scrapbook
Using the Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary, design a scrapbook. Scrapbook must include vocabulary in alphabetical order, a description of its meaning and an illustration of each. You may use white paper and/or construction paper, ribbon tape and other materials necessary. Upload final product to SeeSaw.
My Unforgettable Trip
Write a short story about an unforgettable trip
you took with friends or family and try to use all these figurative language techniques (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idioms, Oxymoron, Onomatopoeia)
PERSONIFICATION PLAY
In this center you will work in groups of 3. You create a play
with characters and setting. Your story should 3 character that are not people. Begin by choosing an animal or object about which to create a group story. For example, a bird , then you could start the story by saying Once there was a lonely bird who Your play must have a beginning, middle and end.
THEME FILLED CUPCAKES
Use the templates found in the center folders to create your
own cupcakes. You will need create 4 cupcakes. You will read the stories from the center folder. If you take a story from the reading folder please return it. Once you have read the stories and created your cupcakes, you will use the them choices to find the theme to match the story. Discuss with a partner of your answer choice. Take a picture of your cupcake with the answers showing and post on the seesaw.
ONOMATOPOEIA COMIC STRIP
You will create a 6-9 squares comic strip using
Onomatopoeia. Remember you will create a story with a beginning, middle and end.
ALLITERATION ANIMATION
Write the first letter of your name in
a creative way inside the box. Then, using the first letter of your name, create an alliteration. OXYMORON MOVIE POSTER
Use white paper to create a movie poster. Please
be creative and make you poster colorful and neat.
Add an oxymoron message to your poster
2-D PLACE VALUE MODEL In this center you will create 2 decimals expressions. You will write inside the both charts the Powers of ten,
expanded form, word form, and number form. Next you
will create a color coded picture model of your number. See below for an example, you may create your own picture you do not have to use the houses as your model. Save your chart as a PDF file, take of picture of your model and upload both to your seesaw.
DECIMAL TASK CARDS
Download the task cards on Microsoft office.
Complete all task cards on another sheet oyhf paper take a picture of your work and upload to SeeSaw. If for any reason you can't type on the document please create your your own by writing on another sheet of paper. You still need to upload your work on SeeSaw.