At the School Table on April 16

 1. Bark of the Bog Owl--(chapters 1-11) questions and answers and discussion 

Read chapters 12-17 this weekend to answer questions on Monday.

2. Story of the World chapters 5 and 6 questions and answers and discussion

Read the second section of chapter 6 to answer the questions on Monday

Women in the Civil War

1. Name four roles that women had during the Civil War.

Nurses, Supporters (Contributors/Sewing uniforms/flags, etc.), Soldiers, Spies, Refugees, Slaves

2. Describe four contributions women made to the war effort.

Clara Barton worked as a government clerk, won fame as a nurse on the battlefield in Antietam, and later founded the American Red Cross.

Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape using the Underground Railroad.

Dorethea Dix, Sally Tompkins, and Phoebe Pember were all nurses during the war.

Women sewed flags, uniforms, contributed money, held rallies, supplied food and many other supportive roles.

Louisa May Alcott, one of my literary heroes worked as a nurse for the Union army.

Women worked on the farm, kept businesses open, and generally kept the nation running while their husbands and sons were away at war.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book to expose the harshness of slavery.

Mary Walker was a surgeon during the Civil War and a spy who was imprisoned in a Southern jail for four months.

Sarah Emma Edmonds was born in Canada but worked for the Union. She received an army pension and was the only female member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union veterans' organization.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was a Southern-Cuban woman who wrote a book about her exploits as a soldier named "Harry Buford" during the war.

3. Explain three difficulties women faced during the Civil War.

“As night drew near, whispers of a great battle to be fought the next day grew louder, and we shuddered at the prospect, for battles had come to mean to us, as they never had before, blood, wounds, and death.” Mary Bedinger Mitchell

"A ball has passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?" Clara Barton at Antietam

“What a woman may do if only she dares, and dares to do greatly.” - Loreta Velazquez