Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Reconstruction News

To review for our Reconstruction Test, the students pretended to be news reporters and acted out scenes from that time period. The students learned about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Freedmen's Bureau, Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws, and much more about the rebuilding of the South.

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