Civil War Unit

My students have loved learning about the Civil War!  Students researched, read books, and watch video clips learning about important people and events of the war.  Students then wrote free verse poems from the perspective of someone in the Civil War.  I was so impressed with the content of the poems and how passionate my students shared them.  The vocabulary that my students used painted vivid pictures of our nation's history!

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Once More

By : Thomas

As I felt the crumble of the ground, 

Bam! shots fired!

Cannon shells from the sky, 

It only took me seconds to

realized I was paralyzed

All I heard were screams of pain

and gunfire, 

Just wishing I could see my family

once more. 

The smell of nature only frightens me. 

But only if I could see again

I knew the soldiers and I 

would taste

victory.

 The Fire By: Silas

   The wafting, rotten scent of Death

And the gory sight of mangled limbs

Was nothing

Compared to the burning hatred

All around me

An inferno, that sears not the skin

But the soul.

Loss and destruction only

Rekindles the burning Flame

But instead of ash

I smell blood

The remains of what stands

In The Fire’s way

The screams are piercing

As searing hot as The Flame

Otherworldly

As if they are already dead.

The nurses tell me they are alive

But Death has their spirits.                          

Violence doesn’t extinguish

But resurrects, like a phoenix,

Risen from the ashes

Feasting on pain and suffering

I see it all of this

As I plummet to the ground

Momentarily, all that pain

Manifests in the deepest pit in my soul

The vessel that the pain inhabits

Is none other than a musket ball.

For a second I’m falling, screaming

The next I’m floating, the fire extinguished from my soul

going to meet Grandfather

Once again.