This assignment will be particular helpful for students to understand how events in history affect each other. It will reinforce the idea that history is almost never made up of isolated events, but rather events that are all interconnected in a series of causes and effects. It also helps the students to understand the chronological order of events and when they took place. In history class, it can be easy to get lost in the mire of names, terms, and dates and get them all jumbled up in the imagination. Creating a graphic organizer that organizes events in chronological order and cause-and-effect will help them to sort out this information in a way that is easier to understand. It will also force students to think critically about the events in order to determine how one event led to another. Students will primarily demonstrate two levels of thinking in this activity: comprehension and analysis. By providing a date and explanation of the event, students will demonstrate basic comprehension. By connecting the events and explaining the context of each event within the bigger historical picture, students will demonstrate analysis. Within the subject topic, this activity will fit in somewhere at the beginning: somewhere after the causes of the war have been explained but before getting too far into the war itself.
Directions
1. Watch the video provided below the directions about the causes and early events of the Civil War.
2. Read this timeline that provides details and dates about many of the events described in the video.
3. After completing the video and reading the timeline, read these instructions about how to create a flow chart using Google Slides.
4. Using Google Slides, create a flowchart titled "Events Leading Up to the Civil War". This flowchart may take any shape or form that you choose, but it must be easy to follow and clearly demonstrate the relationship between events and their chronological order. Your flow chart must contain a MINIMUM of 5 events. The first event must be The Missouri Compromise. The final event must be the Attack on Fort Sumter. Each event must include 2-5 sentences that describe the event and show its relationship to the next event in the flowchart. Each event must also include the year it took place somewhere in the description. Click here to view a scoring guide that you will be graded on (created using tools available on Google docs). An example is also provided here. The example is based on the American Revolution, but is designed to show you the format the flow chart should take while allowing you to come up with your own examples of events related to the Civil War.
5. After creating your flow chart, share you Google Slide with the teacher for submission.
1. Watch the video provided below the directions about the causes and early events of the Civil War.
2. Read this timeline that provides details and dates about many of the events described in the video.
3. After completing the video and reading the timeline, read these instructions about how to create a flow chart using Google Slides.
4. Using Google Slides, create a flowchart titled "Events Leading Up to the Civil War". This flowchart may take any shape or form that you choose, but it must be easy to follow and clearly demonstrate the relationship between events and their chronological order. Your flow chart must contain a MINIMUM of 5 events. The first event must be The Missouri Compromise. The final event must be the Attack on Fort Sumter. Each event must include 2-5 sentences that describe the event and show its relationship to the next event in the flowchart. Each event must also include the year it took place somewhere in the description. Click here to view a scoring guide that you will be graded on (created using tools available on Google docs). An example is also provided here. The example is based on the American Revolution, but is designed to show you the format the flow chart should take while allowing you to come up with your own examples of events related to the Civil War.
5. After creating your flow chart, share you Google Slide with the teacher for submission.
