Civil War Pathfinder5th Grade

This pathfinder is for the fifth-grade students and teachers to use with the Civil War Unit. It provides electronic and literary resources to use in the unit. To learn more about the Civil War follow the links on this path finder. Information can be located in the media center and on the Internet.

Print Resources-Books and MagazinesNon Fiction Books

• The Battle of Gettysburg• A Free Black Girl before the Civil War: the Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854• Uslysses S. Grant• Abraham Lincoln• The Underground Railroad: Bringing Slaves North to Freedom• The story of Sherman’s March to the Sea• The Emancipation Proclamation: The Abolition of slavery• Frederick Douglas• From slavery to freedom• Harriet Tubman• Jefferson Davis• Honest Abe• Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate

Print Resources-Books and Magazines

Fiction Books• Charlie Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty• Follow the Drinking Gourd by Bernadine Connelly• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco• Henry’s Freedom by Ellen Levine• Turn Homeward Hanna Lee, by Patricia Beatty• Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

On-line Resources-Internet ResourcesPreviewed web-sites selected for the Civil War Unit

• CivilWar@Smithsonian • Sherman’s March to the Sea• Eye Witness to History• Life of a soldier• The Civil War: 1861-1865• The Underground Railroad• Stonewall Jackson’s Resources• The War: The Crossroads of Our Being• Food from the Civil War• Camp life during the Civil War• Stonewall Jackson• Jim Crow Laws•

President Abraham Lincoln

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African Americans in Civil War

Presented by Mrs. Cynthia JohnsonCES Media Specialist

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