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Abstract - Creating Your Own Reconstruction Plan

The document describes an activity where students created their own Reconstruction plans to balance bringing the Confederate states back into the Union with punishing them for seceding. Students first read about Lincoln's plan and the Radical Republican's plan. They then worked in groups of four to develop their own five-point plans outlining goals, strengths, and weaknesses. The groups presented their plans and the class discussed the strengths and weaknesses of each regarding whether the South would agree. This helped students understand the challenge of Reconstruction and the differences between Lincoln's lenient approach and the Radical Republicans' more punitive one. The activity demonstrated how the teacher created a student-centered, engaging lesson to cover state standards.

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Abstract - Creating Your Own Reconstruction Plan

The document describes an activity where students created their own Reconstruction plans to balance bringing the Confederate states back into the Union with punishing them for seceding. Students first read about Lincoln's plan and the Radical Republican's plan. They then worked in groups of four to develop their own five-point plans outlining goals, strengths, and weaknesses. The groups presented their plans and the class discussed the strengths and weaknesses of each regarding whether the South would agree. This helped students understand the challenge of Reconstruction and the differences between Lincoln's lenient approach and the Radical Republicans' more punitive one. The activity demonstrated how the teacher created a student-centered, engaging lesson to cover state standards.

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Enduring Understanding #1: Teachers Create a Curriculum that is Purposeful,

Thoughtful, Engaging and Student Centered.

Artifact # 2: Creating you Own Reconstruction Plan


This activity on creating your own Reconstruction Plan was used to
introduce students to the idea of Reconstruction. Reconstruction is the process of
bringing the rebelling Southern states back into the Union after the Civil War. There
are three major plans that were proposed by the president and the congress. These
include Lincolns Plan, The Wade-Davis Bill (Radical Republicans Plan) and Andrew
Johnsons plan. Each of these plans balance punishing the South with quickly
bringing the Union back together.
The purpose of this lesson was for students to understand the delicate
balance between restoring the Union and punishing the South. We first read
Lincolns Reconstruction Plan and The Radical Republicans Reconstruction plan in
the textbook. I then had students pick partners and group themselves into groups
of four students. Students were asked to create a five-point reconstruction plan
that would balance bringing the South back into the Union versus punish the South
for their rebellion. Students had to establish what the major goal was of their plan.
Then students had to outline the strengths and weaknesses of their plans. The
students had to write their plans on a large piece of construction paper and prepare
to share out their plan. As the students shared out their plans, I had the class
weigh in on whether the South would agree to each plan. We discussed possible
strengths and weaknesses of each plan. This resulted in students understanding
the challenge between punishing the South and brining the Union back together
quickly. This allowed students to understanding why Lincolns plan was lenient
while the Radical Republicans plan delivered more punishments.
This activity demonstrates my mastery of the enduring understanding
mentioned above because the lesson was student-centered giving the students a
voice in their learning while covering a state standard. Students were able to pick
their own groups and collaborate to develop ideas on how to reconstruct the nation.
We were then able to connect this concept through discussion to the historical
reconstruction plans of Lincoln, The Radical Republicans and Johnson. The
discussion portion was facilitated by the teacher but student driven as they shared
out their plans. As we were sharing out the plans I asked for student feedback.
Because the students choose their groups they were highly comfortable working
with the other students and all students were able to actively develop their
reconstruction plans.

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