Activity 4: Civil War Trading Cards
CC: Providing a list of key persons, places, and things regarding the American Civil War in Louisiana, have students research and create "trading cards" (e.g., PowerPoint) that possess prescribed components (e.g., visual [or illustration], title [catch phrase], historical facts [most significant], side note [trivia], summary statement [impact on the war]). The PowerPointŪ or hand drawn trading cards should be printed (one sided) on a regular sheet of paper and displayed. Each student would present a brief explanation of the information collected on his/her topic.
MS PowerPoint software template - "Civil War Slide"
Web Sites: World Book Online http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home http://www.louisianaschools.net/worldbook/
Additional Resources History Central: Union Generals http://www.multied.com/bio/UGENS/Index.html
History Central: Confederate Generals http://www.multied.com/Bio/CWcGENS/
Biographies: Camps of the Louisiana Division
Louisiana Native Guards
Women in the Civil War: Sarah Morgan http://civilwartalk.com/cwt_alt/resources/women/s_morgan.htm
Governor P.B.S. Pinchback http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/Pinchback/pinchback.htm
Encyclopedia Louisiana: Governor Henry Watkins Allen http://www.enlou.com/people/allenhw-bio.htm
Encylopedia Louisiana: Francis T. Nicholls http://www.enlou.com/people/nichollsft-bio.htm
Civil War Biographies http://www.civilwarhome.com/biograph.htm
Louisiana Battalion Washington Artillery http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/WA/index.cfm
History Net: Front Royal: Key to the Valley http://historynet.com/acw/blfrontroyal2/
Louisiana Volunteers http://tcc230.tripod.com/9thlainf/Page_24.html
Civil War Battle Summaries: http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm#la
History of Bailey's Dam http://www.civilwar.org/historyclassroom/hc_baileysdamhist.htm |