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| Language: | en |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ784651 |
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- Fighting the Civil War with Primary Resources McCarthy, Alan Sterne, Sandra United States History War Grade 4 Documentaries Performance Based Assessment Class Activities Group Activities Films Film Production Editing Production Techniques The calendar was creeping into June. It was late spring, a time when many students' thoughts were sliding toward summer vacation. But it wasn't a problem in Lori Lowe's classroom. Her students had bigger things on their minds--like whether or not the Civil War would turn out the way they hoped. For many weeks, these fourth graders had been producing a sixteen-minute film documentary about America's bloodiest conflict. They had researched, written a script, recorded a soundtrack, and labored to fit together images gathered from the Library of Congress. The images were the key because they would tell the tale as much as the words. These images--photos, drawings, maps, and posters--have a lot to say. They are all primary resources, artifacts derived directly from the time they describe and straight from the war itself. Their detail is revealing, their authenticity empowering.