Andersonville Prison Photographs

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Jesse - MacIntyre Park Middle School Rhonda Thomas County Middle School

Standards
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SS8H6b, L6-8RH7, ELACC8RI7.

Time Needed to Complete Activity:

One class period.

Overview
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Students will analyze photos of Andersonville Prison taken during the Civil War.

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Photos of Andersonville Prison: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgibin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=9&rset=005&format=dlg&h2=n gen

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgibin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=10&rset=005&format=dlg&h2= ngen

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Teacher Task: Make and present a PowerPoint presentation illustrating P.O.W. camps during the Civil War. The PowerPoint should contain a site map of different P.O.W. camps on both the Union and Confederate side. Slides should detail prisoner treatment (perhaps mention any differing treatment between officers and enlisted men), population, sanitary conditions, food, rules, day-to-day life, etc. As a class analyze the photos taken of Andersonville. Have students apply what they just learned about P.O.W. camps to their understanding of the photo. Do we see hints of how we can learn about topics such as treatment, conditions, day-to-day life from the photo? Have them point things out. - Also ask how and why photographs are useful resources for studying history; or why they are not.

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