You are to become a person that was in Gettysburg on July 1,2,3, 1863.  Use the newspaper accounts listed below to develop your journal. Other websites are listed to help you understand and gain background knowledge of the time.  To create your journal follow the steps below.

1) Read several newspaper accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg and determine some specific events to include in each journal entry. Also, look at several of the other websites to gain more information about the time.
2) Create an identity and name for your character. Your character could be a military soldier, reporter, or a resident of Gettysburg during this time. Write this journal as though you are in Gettysburg, PA on July 1,2,3, 1863.
3) Write three journal entries, one for each of the days of the battle.  Each should be two to three paragraphs long.
4) Include four drawings, a self-portrait and one each of the scenes that you are describing in your journal entries.
5) The journal should have a unique cover.
6) Use cursive writing. People at this time would be writing in cursive because it was the expected way of producing written work.
7) Have fun learning about an important time in the history of the United States.

Star and Sentinel	The New York Times
A Minnesota Civil War Journal	From the Journal of William H. Warren, Private, of Co. C

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