Civil War Postcards

On your blog create a postcard that shows the point of view of a person from the Civil War time period, showing five days in the person's life. This means you need to have five different pictures and descriptions.

You should also comment on at least one other students' blog.

Your choices are

1. African-American Soldier from the 54th Massachusetts' regiment

2. Union nurse on the field at Gettysburg

3. Northern woman left at home alone

4. Southern woman managing a plantation

5. Yankee soldier at Antietam

6. Northern prisoner-of-war at Andersonville

7. Southern soldier preparing for Pickett's last charge

8. A Southern plantation owner

(Only two students can pick each choice, so call dibs in the comment section of this blog.)

For extra credit, be the first to tell me in class what this cartoon is about.

Reform Movements

"American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and pessimistic views of human nature and society." Assess the validity of this statement in reference to reform movements in one of the following areas:
Education
Temperance
Women's rights
Utopian experiments
Penal institutions

Pick one of the reform movements and answer the question on your blog. Only 3 students can pick each movement. You can call dibs on the movement you want in the comment section of this blog. You must also comment on three students blogs (two that have different movements than you and one that has the same movement as you).