Reflection On The Antebellum Period In South Carolina History

I taught my lesson first thing in the morning after the students had entered the classroom and watched the morning announcements. While the students were seated at their desks, I asked them to get their South Carolina textbook and journal. Once the students had their materials ready I called them by their tables to sit on the carpet. I then asked the students to turn to page 160 in their textbooks. Next I talked with the class about what we just finished learning about in our last social studies unit. I then told the studies that we were now going to start studying the antebellum period in South Carolina. Some of the students had previously saw the word antebellum on the bored and they had asked what it meant so I broke the word down and explained …show more content…
After reading this section some of the students raised their hands to say that they have heard of the Civil War. We then moved to the next section, which was about the new cash crop, cotton. We discussed why cotton was in such high demand and how it was used. We then talked about how difficult it was to pick cotton and separate the seeds from it. The book gave us a chart that showed how much cotton one person could pick in a day. We then transitioned our discussion into how we could make picking cotton easier, after discussing this we read a section from the book about the cotton gin. We went over who invented it and how it made picking cotton so much easier. The next section in the text discussed how the growth of cotton lead to an expansion of slavery. After reading form the text, we made a graphic organizer answering the questions what was our states new cash crop, why did planters want a better way to clean cotton, and what changes did the cotton gin bring to South Carolina? After this it was time for the students to go to an assembly so we did not have time to complete the posters advertising the cotton