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 * SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.**
 * a. Identify Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and explain how each of these events was related to the Civil War.**
 * b. Discuss how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South.**
 * c. Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Appomattox Court House.**
 * d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.**
 * e. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.**

**ELA5W1The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student **
 * a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose,**
 * genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.**
 * b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.**
 * c. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order,**
 * cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).**
 * d. Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements).**

**ELA5W3 The student uses research and technology to support writing. ** **VA5MC.1**
 * b. Formulates visual ideas by using a variety of resources (e.g., books, magazines, Internet).**
 * VA5MC.2**
 * d. Explores and invents artistic conventions (styles, techniques) to connect and express visual ideas.**