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Linking Content and Strategies

The ability to analyze visual media is a transferable skill that can be applied to many topics and disciplines. It is also one of many strategies for introducing students to the Civil War conflict.

Journal: Apply This Strategy to Other Content Areas

Think about the applicability of this strategy (interpreting visual media) with some other topic in the history classroom. In your journal, describe a photograph or film analysis activity you might incorporate with a different history topic.

Journal: Apply Other Strategies to This Content Area

Think about other strategies that you could apply to this topic (Civil War conflict) to help students understand battlefield conditions for Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as the impact of battles on various civilians in the North and South. Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach in shaping an understanding of the relevant history. Describe the strategies in your journal.

To see a list of teaching strategies that could be applied to this and other topics in history, see Strategies.

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