Reading Reconstruction With Students by Mary Jo Festle The Journal of American History Define using context clues: Grapple Define using context clues: Whet 1. Why did the white women from Florida and Virginia feel this way? What happened? How will their lives now change? Aside from the end of the war, how else are their lives now different? 2. On the top of 1354, the author details a method she uses to allow messages to sink in and to moderate classroom discussions. What is that method? Define using context clues: Victimization 3. In the ‘Last week, in Chattanooga…’ story why was the name Buck offensive? How did ‘Buck’ react to the weapon? Aside from the fear inspired by the weapon, why else might he have reacted in this way? Define using context clues: Indignantly 4. Going back to the ‘I cannot tell you how it oppressed me…’ story on 1353, and the classroom discussion on 1354, describe in your own words what the African-American student means when he says ‘She’s said that she can’t exploit them anymore and will have to do her own work.’ Define using context clues: Immoral 5. What is the ground rule the author describes on page 1355, that keeps her class from making value judgments? 6. How are the two statements by newly freed slaves on page 1355, different. If you were a freedman after the war, which is the approach you would have taken? 7. What does the speaker in the statement at the bottom of 1355, and the top of 1356 mean when he says ‘This is your country, but it is ours too; you were born here, so were we; your fathers fought for it, but our fathers fed them.’ Which race’s fathers fought for the country, which father’s races fed them? How did they feed them?

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Reading Reconstruction With Students by Mary Jo FestleThe Journal of American History

Define using context clues: Grapple

Define using context clues: Whet

1. Why did the white women from Florida and Virginia feel this way? What happened? How will their lives now change? Aside from the end of the war, how else are their lives now different?

2. On the top of 1354, the author details a method she uses to allow messages to sink in and to moderate classroom discussions. What is that method?

Define using context clues: Victimization

3. In the ‘Last week, in Chattanooga…’ story why was the name Buck offensive? How did ‘Buck’ react to the weapon? Aside from the fear inspired by the weapon, why else might he have reacted in this way?

Define using context clues: Indignantly

4. Going back to the ‘I cannot tell you how it oppressed me…’ story on 1353, and the classroom discussion on 1354, describe in your own words what the African-American student means when he says ‘She’s said that she can’t exploit them anymore and will have to do her own work.’

Define using context clues: Immoral

5. What is the ground rule the author describes on page 1355, that keeps her class from making value judgments?

6. How are the two statements by newly freed slaves on page 1355, different. If you were a freedman after the war, which is the approach you would have taken?

7. What does the speaker in the statement at the bottom of 1355, and the top of 1356 mean when he says ‘This is your country, but it is ours too; you were born here, so were we; your fathers fought for it, but our fathers fed them.’ Which race’s fathers fought for the country, which father’s races fed them? How did they feed them?

8. What have you learned about conflicting white and black goals or attitudes during Reconstruction? ;)