greelyd000+civil+war

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Please identify opportunities for differentiation. Did they present their content in a lively way that is also appropriate and purposeful? Does their content include specific dates, causes, and significant events? Did they show how life was prior to the war and the during the aftermath of it? Did they demonstrate if there were examples of ways the war has effected people to this day? ||
 * Title: ||< Civil War ||
 * Subject: ||< History ||
 * Grade: ||< 8th Grade ||
 * Purpose: || To determine the causes of civil war, how the reasons have changed over the years, and what impact these wars had and continue to have on their countries today. ||
 * Time Frame: ||< 2 weeks ||
 * Summary: ||< We will identify why civil wars arise and the similiarities and diffrences of the causes of civil wars over the ages. ||
 * Tasks: ||< * The students shall be split up into pairs or work indidually to do seperate/individual research on diffrent countries that have gone through or are going through civil wars. After this we will regroup and discuss the similarities and diffrences.
 * After the pairs have presented then the class will vote on which civil war they felt they would like to find further research on and find out how it effects real people alive today. ||
 * Objectives: || * What content expectations or other objectives does this activity/lesson/project meet?
 * Please include at least one "Mash-Up" objective here, as well (student roles, Information Literacy, global empathy, higher-order thinking, etc.)
 * To identify why civil wars occur
 * To realize the similarities and diffrences between civil wars over time
 * Have the students come up with a way to connect with real society that has dealt with civil war; examples stated below
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01591/world-t.html
 * google civil war throughout the world ||
 * Examples: ||< Examples of how students can connect with real society:
 * To connect with someone who has dealt with the aftermath of a civil war
 * Read a newspaper from that time period or from present day that is for that country
 * Some sort of service project ||

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