Task

Imagine that you were alive during the time of the American Civil War. Where would you live? Which side would you support? What would you wear? What would you eat? If you were a soldier, what weapons would you have? How would you survive?

As part of this project, you will choose a role and find out what that person's life might have been like. You will write several journal entries -- a Civil War diary -- describing what you do each day, what you think about the war, and what hardships you must endure. You will also describe the music you might have listened to. In addition, you will create a map of the United States that shows where you lived in 1861, and where the major battles of the war took place.

Finally, you will post your best journal entry as a comment to a MLK Civil War Journals blog, sharing it with other students and teachers and providing a model for future students who will also do this project.