Civil War

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James McPherson
• We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose

Lesson 3

• The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 by John Grafton, ed.* (3.2 - optional)

Materials

Common Materials

• tape or glue
• timeline cards
• timeline of U.S. history
• crayons, markers, or colored pencils* (4.1 - optional)
• crayons, markers, or colored pencils* (5.1 - optional)
• crayons, markers, or colored pencils* (6.1 - optional)
• crayons, markers, or colored pencils* (7.2 - optional)
• art materials

Lesson 1

• colored pencils (red, blue, and orange)

Lesson 2

• colored pencils

Lesson 3

• butcher paper (provided)
• scissors* (3.3 - optional)

Lesson 4

• index cards* (4.3 - Option 1)

Lesson 8

• a piece of posterboard* (8.2 - Option 1)
• colored pencils, crayons, or other art supplies* (8.1 - optional)
• colored pencils, markers, or crayons
• construction paper, scissors, and glue or gluestick
• drawing paper* (8.1 - optional)

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used