United States and the World II
Mrs. Banas
50 points
Name:_________________________
Civil War Battle Project:
On April 12, 1861 Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, a Union fort in South
Carolina, and the Civil War began. For four long years the North and the South fought
bitterly and by the end of the conflict in 1865 approximately 620,000 soldiers had died, nearly
as many as in all other American wars combined. For this project we are going to look at
some of the battles in depth.
ASSIGNMENT: You and a partner will profile one battle of the Civil War, design a
PowerPoint presentation and poster that illustrates the battle and present your battle to the
class. You will be the resident experts on that battle and you will be responsible for teaching
the battle to your classmates.
1. PowerPoint Presentation:
Must include the following requirements:
 Minimum of TWELVE slides
 Includes at least SIX visuals
 Bibliography/ Works Cited Page of at least FOUR sources (MLA format)
Must include the following information:
 The people involved (generals, forces, number of troops etc)
 Where the battle occurred (a map might be useful)
 Timeframe for the battle (how long the battle lasted, what days it occurred etc)
 What took place (what the battle looked like, what happened, what troops
moved where and when they did that etc.)
 Outcome of the battle (who won, casualties, how did the battle impact the
policies of both the Union and the Confederacy, etc.)
 Effects of the battle (what did the winning side gain? Where did the losing
troops go? What happened in the war as a result of this battle?)
2. Poster illustrating the battle:
Your poster should include an abbreviated (brief) version of the information from your
PowerPoint presentation. This poster will be displayed on the back bulletin board in
the classroom for other students to view.
3. Presentation
Be ready to present your PowerPoint and poster of your battle to the class. You will
be graded not only on your content knowledge of your selected battle but also your
public speaking skills (eye contact, volume, etc.)
CIVIL WAR BATTLES
1. First Battle of Bull Run ____________________________
2. Forts Henry and Donelson ____________________________
3. The Battle of Shiloh ____________________________
4. Monitor and the Merrimack ____________________________
5. The Second Battle of Bull Run ____________________________
6. The Battle of Antietam ____________________________
7. The Battle of Fredericksburg ____________________________
10. The Battle of Chancellorsville ____________________________
11. The Battle of Gettysburg ____________________________
12.The Siege of Vicksburg ____________________________
13.The Battle of the Wilderness ____________________________
14.The Battle of Spotsylvania ____________________________
15.The Battle of Cold Harbor ____________________________
16.The Siege of Petersburg ____________________________
Some resources that might prove useful:
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LIBRARY!!
CWSAC Battle Summaries: http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm
Civil War Trust: http://www.civilwar.org/
The War: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
The Civil War Homepage: www.civil-war.net
The American Civil War Homepage: www.sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
The National Archives: www.archives.gov and then search for “civil war”
Ehistory.com: ehistory.osu.edu and then go to the Civil War Collection
Palisades High School
Civil War Battle Project
Student:_______________________________
Date Submitted: ______________
Title of Work: ______________________________
Criteria
Points
10 -Exemplary 8-Accomplished 6 -Developing 4-Unsatisfactory
Content
Knowledge
Research
and
Preparation
Organization
and
Audience
Appeal
Public
Speaking
Skills
Visual and
Written
Elements
Background provided is
Provides limited
Provides detailed
brief or includes
background or information
Provides detailed, but
background about the information not relevant
is not relevant to the
concise background about
assigned battles and its to the assigned battle assigned battle with little to
the assigned battle and its
impact on the Civil War; and its impact on the
no discussion about the
overall impact on the Civil
Student is at ease with
Civil War; Student is battle’s impact on the war;
War; Student demonstrate
content, but fails to
uncomfortable with Student did not have grasp
full knowledge (more than
elaborate; covered topic content and is able to
of information; student
required); covered topic with
with appropriate
demonstrate basic
cannot answer questions
outstanding information.
information.
concepts; covered the
about subject; omitted
basics
important information.
Used minimum number
Used a variety of
of resources for basic
challenging, reliable, and
Used several reliable,
information; used some
appropriate resources;
appropriate sources;
Used few resources; used
evidence and
Used appropriate evidence
made an effort to use
little evidence; spent little
examples; spent
and examples;
evidence and examples;
time on preparation; did
minimal time given on
Used any extra time to
used preparation time
not meet all deadlines.
preparation; needed
extend research; met all
well; met deadlines.
encouragement to meet
deadlines.
deadlines.
Used logical, easy-to-follow
Argument is relatively
order; used clear language
Used hard-to-follow orders
Clear present argument; clear; used order that
to articulate arguments;
and is difficult to
used easy-to-follow order; was confusing at times;
created and maintained
understand, created little
keep audience’s attention.
lost audience’s
audience interest with
audience attention.
attention at times.
audience interaction.
Makes minor mistakes,
Student displays relaxed,
Displays mild tension;
but quickly recovers from
self-confident nature about
has trouble recovering Tension and nervousness
them; displays little or no
self, with no mistakes; Holds
from mistakes;
is obvious; has trouble
tension; Consistent use of
attention of entire audience
Displayed minimal eye recovering from mistakes;
direct eye contact with
with the use of direct eye
contact with audience;
No eye contact with
audience; Satisfactory
contact; Use of fluid speech
Displays some level of
audience; Consistently
use of inflection, but does
and inflection maintains the
inflection throughout
uses a monotone voice.
not consistently use fluid
interest of the audience.
delivery.
speech.
Were highly interesting,
Were messy, disorganized,
Were interesting, easy to
Were somewhat
easy to see and understand;
hard to understand; did not
see and understand;
interesting; generally
communicated main ideas
support main ideas; had
communicated main
supported main ideas;
clearly; had no or few
many errors and needed to
ideas; had few errors;
had several errors;
grammar errors; showed
be revised; showed little
showed effort.
showed fair effort.
outstanding effort.
effort.
Total---->
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