Gettysburg Project

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=gettysbur+images&start=114&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw

Southern Soldiers Charging Northern Soldiers

http://capitolbadgers.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/gettysburg-what-happens-if-the-south-wins/

Leading up to Gettysburg

• November 6th 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States.

• December 20th 1860 - South Carolina elects to secede from the United States.

• January 1861 - Six more states join South Carolina and secede.

• February 1861 - The southern states that seceded form the Confederate States of America.

• April 12th 1861 – The South fires upon Ft. Sumter and begins the American Civil War.

Fence line and Battlefield

http://gotravelfurther.com/2012/06/12/travel-photo-gettysburg-battlefield-pa-usa/

The Battle of Gettysburg

• July 1st 1863 – Day 1• The Battle of Gettysburg begins: On the morning of July

1, 1863, Confederate troops ran into Union horsemen on the Chambersburg Pike, northwest of town. Each side sent for help. The rebels got there first, and by afternoon had driven the Federals south of town, where they rallied into defensive positions on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill.

• Click on this map - http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg/maps/gettysburgditterline.html

• Use your SEA worksheet for this map activity.

Rebel Sharp Shooter

http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/gettysburg.htm

The Battle of Gettysburg

• July 2nd 1863 – Day 2• The Battle of Gettysburg, the second day: By the morning of

July 2, 1863, 150,000 Union and Confederate troops had converged on the little Pennsylvania town. The southerners occupied a line west of the Emmittsburg Road, along the Seminary Ridge. The northern men waited along Cemetery Ridge - a slightly more elevated crest that ran south toward two hills, Big and Little Round Top. Lee’s plan called for an assault on the left, or southernmost, end of the Union line.

• View this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.00168/?co=cwp

• Use your SEA worksheet while viewing this image.

Aftermath of a Battle

http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/gettysburg.htm

The Battle of Gettysburg

• July 3rd 1863 – Day 3• Pickett’s Charge: At about three in the

afternoon of July 3, 1863, Robert E. Lee ordered the most fateful assault of the war, against the center of the Union line.

• For this activity we will be using out KWL charts.

• View this video of a Gettysburg tour guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iz2XaCsA_4

Map of Pickett’s Charge

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pickett_s_Charge

Gettysburg Address

http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/pages/default.aspx

What it says:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thusFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth. 

Concluding Activity 1• With your assigned group, compare your

SEA worksheets and KWL chart. • Complete a Venn Diagram comparing the

worksheets.

Concluding Activity 2• Once you have completed the diagram,

decide as a group how you will present what you learned about the bloodiest battle in the Civil War.

• You may choose:• To write a 3 page summary• To create a video• To write a song/music video• To create a Power point presentation

• Once you have made a decision, you will receive more detailed instruction from me.