Lesson 2.23–2.24 Complete Lesson Bundle (Notes and Packet) — THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION & JUNETEENTH

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

🖥️ Lesson 2.23 Guided Notes Slide Deck (PDF)
🖥️ Lesson 2.24 Guided Notes Slide Deck (PDF)
📄 Lesson 2.23–2.24 Worksheet Packet (PDF)

Explore how African Americans shaped the Civil War and the end of slavery with this complete lesson bundle for Unit 2 of the AP African American Studies course. Two guided notes slide decks follow Black soldiers and civilians through the war, then emancipation and Juneteenth. A 13-page worksheet packet adds primary source analysis, a video activity, and a short answer exit ticket.

📝 What's Included:

✅ 43 total slides across two Guided Notes Slide Decks (20 + 23) + 13-page Student Worksheet Packet (PDF + printable)
🖥️ Link to Editable version (Google Slides & Google Docs)
🎖️ Notes on the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the inequalities Black soldiers faced, and the New York City Draft Riots, with a Glory film clip that carries a content warning
📖 In-depth reading on contraband camps, the Confiscation Acts, the U.S. Colored Troops, and profiles of Black contributors including Harriet Tubman and Robert Smalls
📜 Primary source excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) with close reading prompts
📸 Primary source analysis of Civil War-era photographs and Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
⚖️ Notes and reading on the Thirteenth Amendment and its limits
🎉 Notes, General Order No. 3, and photo galleries on Juneteenth, including Leimert Park in Los Angeles
🎥 Video features from TED-Ed and KTLA 5, and video questions for "The Civil War & Emancipation: Black History in Two Minutes or So"
✍️ Exit ticket short answer question using the S.P.Y. writing method
🧠 Guided note-taking and source analysis prompts

📚 Students Will Learn About:

🏃🏾 How enslaved people who fled to Union lines pressured leaders to confront emancipation
🎖️ The service of the U.S. Colored Troops and the unequal pay and risks they faced
👩🏾‍⚕️ The wartime contributions of Black civilians as laborers, nurses, scouts, and spies
🔥 The racist backlash to emancipation and the draft in Northern cities
📜 What the Emancipation Proclamation declared, and whom it did not free
⚖️ How the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery "except as punishment for a crime"
🎉 How Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in Texas and how its traditions continue today

🎯 Perfect For:

✔ AP African American Studies (Topics 2.23–2.24)
✔ 9th–12th Ethnic Studies, African American History, or U.S. History enrichment
✔ Black History Month or Juneteenth lessons
✔ Primary source, photograph, and poetry analysis, plus short answer writing practice
✔ Lessons exploring African American contributions to the Civil War and the path to emancipation

📎 Formats:

✅ Ready-to-print PDFs
✅ Includes links to Editable Google Slide Decks and Editable Google Doc
✅ Class-ready in 15 minutes or less
✅ Download once. Use every year.

🖥️📝 LESSON 2.23 NOTES PREVIEW:

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🖥️📝 LESSON 2.24 NOTES PREVIEW:

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📄 LESSON 2.23–2.24 PACKET PREVIEW:

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