Ads Recruiting Black Soldiers and Laborers
From: Docs Teach
Grade Level: MS
Remote Ready: Yes!
Time: 1 Class Period or Less
Length of Reading: Paragraphs
Students compare a Union ad recruiting black soldiers with a Confederate ad asking slave owners to provide slave laborers. Students answer 4 questions.
Armed with their teacher's email address, students can write the answers to the provided questions and send them to their teacher within the Docs Teach site. Teachers will have to click through an email link from each student though. So Anti-textbook recommends paraphrasing the questions into your LMS so that written answers are easier to grade.
More Information:
Grade Level:
MS: This lesson is meant for middle school students
This Activity Involves:
Primary Source: This activity utilizes primary sources.
Two unidentified soldiers in Union cavalry uniforms with Sharps rifles and Colt revolvers. [Between 1861 and 1865] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2013645734/>.
