Our project for Chapter involves writing a letter to your family during the Civil War. You will have to assume either two roles: Soldier or Nurse.
This project regquires two part:
Part 1: Intitial Research/Information:
Prior to writing your letter, you will need to gather some information about the Civil War to intergrate into your letter. Most of your information can be obtain by taking notes from the Movie called, Glory, textbook and the internet. You should gather information on four of the six topics listed below:
- African American soldiers
- Role of women in the war
- Medicine, hospitals, and medical procedures
- Weapons and munitions
- Battlefield tactics
- Food, clothing, and life in camp
After gathering your research on four of these topics, you will need to write a brief research paper and cite the source you used to obtain the information. The paper should be five paragraphs and the information should be paraphrased. In each paragraph, make sure to cite your information at the end of the paragraph by using parenthesis. This part is worth 50 percent of the project grade.
Part 2: Letter
For the second part, pretend that you are a soldier or nurse in the Civil War, and write a letter to tell your family back home about your experience at war. Your letter should include something from each of the four topics that you researched. Do not just re-write all of your information in a letter. You should be telling a story to the person back home, not just listing information. Use the following letter template below to type your letter on. Do not change the font size or font style.
The final draft of the letter should be roughly four to five paragraphs or one page typed.
Rsocialstudies: Bringing History Alive 