Bobby and I read excepts and looked at primary sources/authentic pictures in three different Civil War books. The topics we discussed as we read included: Causes and consequences of the Civil War, military versus civilian life, refugees (link to today), military strategies, spies and espionage, Arlington National Cemetery (as well as JFK, RFK, Arlington House and the Eternal Flame), slavery and the development of Washington DC, major battles, Richmond as the capital of the Confederacy, Lincoln and Davis. We looked at pictures of numerous locations, from photography taken during the Civil War and recent pictures to compare how time and development have changed these places. As we talked, I posed numerous open ended questions, and questions that required higher order thinking (e.g. Why do you think the railroads would be important?).