Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The Lost Cause and Old South

Agenda 11/17-19:
  1. Students completed their reading about change and continuity in the South during Reconstruction
  2. Students participated in a simulation of separate but equal. 
  3. I finished a lecture about Reconstruction.
  4. Students watched clips from the films, Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind
  5. Students read an article about the Myth of the Lost Cause, debating whether monuments to the Confederacy should be renamed.