Unit (Name/Number):Reconstruction: Origin / Pacing:One Week
Essential Question(s):
  1. UEQ:How can the P.R.E.S.T.I.G.E. paradigm be used to study Reconstruction?
  2. UEQ: What is a broad overview of Reconstruction?
  3. LEQ: What is the origin of Reconstruction?

Content/Key Concepts / Standards / Key Vocabulary / Learning Activities/Resources / Evidence of Learning
(Assessments;Performance Tasks)
Reconstruction: P.R.E.S.T.I.G.E. & Overview / Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.A Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.E Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.F Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.G
Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.H
Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.I Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.A Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.B Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.C Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.D
Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.F Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.G
Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.H Standard - 5.1.12.B
Standard - 5.1.12.C
Standard - 5.1.U.D
Standard - 5.1.U.F
Standard - 5.2.12.B
Standard - 5.2.C.A
Standard - 5.3.12.D
Standard - 5.3.12.H
Standard - 5.4.12.A
Standard - 5.4.12.B
Standard - 5.4.C.A
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B S
Standard - 8.1.C.B
Standard - 8.3.12.A
Standard - 8.3.12.A
Standard - 8.3.12.C
Standard - 8.3.12.D
Standard - 8.3.C.B
Standard - 8.3.U.B
Standard - 8.3.U.C
Standard - 8.3.U.D
Standard - 8.4.12.A
Standard - 8.4.12.B
Standard - 8.4.12.C /
  • Authority, Power, Rights, Checks and Balances, End of Civil War, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, Lincoln’s Plan, Johnson’s Plan, Radical Republicans, Radical Reconstruction, Military Districts, Military Governors, Occupation, Grandfather Clause, Secret Ballot, Presidential Pardons, Intimidation, KKK, Terrorism, Carpet Baggers, Scalawags, Freedman’s Bureau, Tenet Farmers, Sharecropping, Exodus, Lynching, Senator Hiram Revels, African American (Black/Colored) politicians, Thomas Nast (political cartoons)
/ Lecture, Guided Notes, Chart, Maps, Readings, Discussions, Film/Video/Pictures, Timeline, Political Cartoons, Songs, Art, Artifacts (digital, physical), US ArmyHeritage and Education Center, Government Reports and Sites, Military History Books and Articles, Memoirs/Oral Histories(Veteran, Slaves, Civilian), Experts/Speakers (US Army War College Speakers Bureau), USAHEC Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series, Clips of DW Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, Excerpts of Harper’s Weekly, McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, Ordeal by Fire, and The War That Forged A Nation, and Foner’s A Short History of Reconstruction / Chart, Maps, Discussions, Class Work, Quiz, Homework, Exams, Research Essay, Book Review, Reaction Essay
Reconstruction: Origin / See Above. /
  • End of Civil War, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, Lincoln’s Plan, Johnson’s Plan, Radical Republicans, Radical Reconstruction
/ See Above. / Chart, Maps, Discussions, Class Work, Quiz, Homework, Exams, Research Essay, Book Review, Reaction Essay