Roles

Your Job

Resource Ideas

Reporter

Find 2 letters from Civil War Soldiers. Print them out & paste them in your jounal.

Report on what the Underground Railroad was.

Compare advantages and disadvantages of the north and south. Include each side of the issues causing the war.

Report on the meaning of abolition and secession.

Type up reports in Word.

Use a Venn Diagram to show how the North and South were alike, different and the same.You can create this in Word or Power Point.

Historian

Create a timeline of 10 important events/battles during the war. Each event or battle should have a detailed description of the important information and pictures.

Create a graph compaing war costs and causalitites.

Create timeline with pictures and descriptions as slides in Power Point.

Use Chart Wizard in Excel to create graphs showing costs and causalities.

Illustrator

Create replicas of the Union and Confederate flags.

Identify states of the Union and Confederacy. Use a visual aid to show the states of each side.

Show examples of uniforms worn by soldiers and money used during the war.

Kid Pix may be used to create flags.

Insert pictures of the Northern and Southern states into Word. Document and label states.

Find pictures of currency and copy into a word document.

Editor

Write an article on the causes of the civil war.

Identify and and write about 2 important women and 2 important African Americans during the Civil War.

Identify and write about 3 important people from each side of the war. This may include generals, presidents, etc.

Use Microsoft Publisher to create news articles about your assigned topics.

Find pictures on the Internet and copy into articles.