Lesson+Civil+War+&+News+Literacy

**GRADE LEVEL** (s): Grade 7-8 **Topic:** Civil War **Theme**: Investigate the causes, effects and results of the civil war as reporters. **Focus**: Investigating & reporting about the Civil War using technology as a median to showcase the results. **Content Area:** Social Studies and Information Literacy with a focus on news literacy. **Standards Addressed**: Social Studies & Information Technology Social Studies **Standard 1**: History of the United States and New York // Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. // **Standard 5:** Civics, Citizenship, and Government // Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. // Mathematics, Science, and Technology **Standard 1**: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design //Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions//. **Standard 2**: Information Systems //Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies//. ** Instructional Objective:  ** Student Students will be able to understand the causes and effects of the Civil War and express understanding and meaning of such through digital technology. ** Key Vocabulary ** :  Turning Point of the War, Causes of the War, Effects of the War, ** Procedure ** : Students will be presented with a power point presentation that will include news report. The students will be present with a list of core resources that will help in the research. In addition the teacher will explain about news reporters and what they do. The students will make reports about civil war such as battles, causes, effects and results in the board cast. **Role of the Teacher**: The teacher will help in guiding the content questions of the news report as an acting coach. The students will have a choice in choosing a certain topic in the civil war news report. **Pre-Planning Activities:** Homework the students will review the Civil War causes & effects. **EVALUATION**: I have designed a rubric to see what the students have learned doing the news cast. **FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES**: The follow up activity would a survey of the lesson for the class to take.
 * LESSON TITLE**: Digital Stories of Civil War
 * RESOURCES & AGENDA: **
 * 1) Core Resources of Books that will help guide the students on overall civil war.
 * 2) Power Point about the assignment News Media and the civil war.
 * 3) Power Point on how to do the project using technology such as Micro Play Story or Imovie.
 * 4) Power Point of Sample Questions that a reporter must ask.
 * ACTIVITIES: **