JOHN BROWN ELEMENTS

CIVIL WAR

By the end of the class, students should:

• Acquire a deeper understanding
• Know about some John Brown’s actions 
• Recognize the evidence
• Asses the evidence in favour of him as villain or hero.

Activity: 

• Ask students what they know about war in America (1859)
• Make couples and then, they have to share their knowledge.
• Ask for volunteer and make notes on the board

Materials: 

• Guided readings: the civil war, John Brown’s pdf
• Images: John Brown fort

Vocabulary: 

• insurgent
• Raid
• Bayonet
• Trigger

Ask students what they know about John Brown review:

Explanation: who was John Brown?

Put a video documentary In which explains what happened in a neutral way

Students have to organize in a groups of three people in order to answer some questions: (in a piece of paper)

• Why John Brown’s raid be considered a trigger event?
• Do you think John Brown started the Civil War?
• Do you disagree or agree? Support your answer

Conclusion

Every group have to make a conclusion in which explain their position of the situation