US History · Week 6 · Founding Ideals, Faith, and Reconstruction
Rebuilding After the Civil War
Students learn how freedpeople rebuilt families, founded schools and churches, and voted during Reconstruction and consider what real repair after deep harm requires.
- Students will
- Students examine the effects of Reconstruction, including how freedpeople rebuilt families, founded schools and churches, and voted, and analyze change and continuity after 1877.
- SEL skill
- Describe what real repair after harm needs, including honesty and action
- What it looks like
- Students practice repair and trust by naming what real repair after harm requires.
- Content focus
- Rebuilding after the Civil War
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Relationship skills
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What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 11.1.4: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.1, item 4)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.2.9-12 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 1: American Beginnings (Prologue)
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 9: A Dividing Nation
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 10: The Civil War
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 11: Reconstruction
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 43: Segregation in the Post-World War II Period
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- Letter From Birmingham Jail Relationship skillsStudents analyze how Martin Luther King Jr. answered his critics with reason and restraint and practice responding to criticism without losing their temper.
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