1. Good afternoon! Please get out your Major Themes sheet.
Find someone in your group to be the recorder – to write down a couple of things for your group

2. What do we know? Discuss with your group and make two lists:
From what you already know what
were the greatest successes of
Reconstruction?
2. What were the greatest
shortcomings or failures of

3. Reading for Last Class Free Blacks The End of Reconstruction
Black Communities
Sharecropping
The End of Reconstruction
Redeemers
Ku Klux Klan & White Supremacy
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877

4. Civil War & Reconstruction
GQ3 - What were the aims & outcomes of Reconstruction?
GQ4 – How successful was Reconstruction?

5. Gallery Walk Chart & Docs
Find the chart on your table – Find the box for Source #9
Use the image on the next page to complete the chart for #9.

6. GQ4: How successful was Reconstruction?

7. Gallery Walk GQ4 – How successful was Reconstruction?
Subject and/or message
What other vocab comes to mind?
How does it help answer the guiding question? A success or a failure? Explain
Based on your work, write a thesis statement that directly answers the question, makes an argument, and establishes clear categories.

8. Create Your Own Image
From your understanding what were the greatest successes and/or failures?
As individuals or in pairs, create an appropriate image (cartoon, newspaper story, mock interview, song, etc.) that demonstrates a major success OR a major failure of Reconstruction.

9. Major Themes Check

10. Major Themes Check

11. Paper 2 Part B Question P2PB Process Sheet
‘By 1877, freedom from slavery had brought few benefits to the ex-slaves.’ How far do you agree?
How will you set up your response?
Thesis Statement
Paragraphs