SuitabookThe Civil War For Kids
Janis Herbert
- Reading
- Read selected activities alongside the historical sections rather than treating the making tasks as the whole story. Pause around slavery, battles and opposing sides, inviting the reader to connect activity with context.
- Themes
- War presented through activities: Readers can make uniform dye, practise drills and signals, decode wigwag, bake hardtack, make a medicine kit and re-enact battles while studying the war. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Enslavement and escape: A sidebar tells of enslaved people escaping on the Underground Railroad within a wider account of the conflict. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- People on opposing sides: The book includes stories of friendships between enemies and short biographies of important figures from both sides. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes war, battles, surrender, slavery and escape from enslavement.