Vocabulary+Activities

For the following vocabulary list, fill out the chart below:
 * __ Prison Camps in the Civil War __**

Use a dictionary to assist you, but after reading the definition, put it in your OWN words.
 * Confederate
 * Captured
 * Yankee
 * Pioneer
 * Infraction
 * Barrack
 * Rebel
 * Commandant


 * Word ||  Definition in your OWN Words  ||  Sentence with the word  ||  Describe how you would explain it to a friend  ||

The students will be given a list of words (the vocabulary words chosen from the book), and will compose an acrostic using the book to guide them to complete the activity. The words to choose from are: To differentiate for this activity, have the “high” students write a sentence for each letter, and for the “low” group, have the students write a word or phrase for each letter. Show an example on the board, have the students list ideas before allowing them to work on their own. Model the word below:
 * Activity #2 **
 * __Great Women of the Civil War__**
 * Ancestors
 * Combat
 * Abolitionists
 * Autobiography
 * Bounty
 * Plantation
 * Segregated
 * Streetcar
 * Suffrage

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 * Activity #3 **

For this activity, students will refer to the vocabulary list associated with the book, __Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray? The Civil War Adventures of Sam Shaw__, and complete the following graphic organizer. The students will complete the organizer for each word, but will take several days to do so. Give one organizer to the students at a time. The students will use the book to help them complete this activity. Be sure to have the student write down the page number where he/she found the word.


 * The vocabulary words to look for are: **


 * Casualties
 * Confederacy
 * Charge
 * Desert
 * Furlough
 * Occupied
 * Rage
 * Regiment
 * Retreat
 * Secede
 * Union