Civil War... The Play!

Last week, students in both fifth-grade classes performed Act 1 of a Civil War play to review the material covered thus far. Students took on several roles, such as King Cotton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and even Fort Sumter (with a small guest appearance by Yoda!). The students were able to act out how tensions and divisiveness between the North and South increased before the Civil War and how the war began when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter. There are two more Acts to come as we learn about this critical period of American history!