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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017
BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
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Schools
Civil War comes to life at Bear Creek Middle School
By Ron Bridg'eman
News-Journal Reporter
Imagine going to class and seeing a
large man in a Union general’s uniform,
talking about the Civil War.
Eighth-grade students at Bear Creek
Middle School saw just that, and a num
ber of topics about the war in the recent
Civil War day at the school.
The “general” was David Kendrick,
the school’s Georgia Studies and gifted
teacher.
It was Kendrick’s first time doing the
Civil War program at Bear Creek.
He had done it in Madison County
for eighth-graders and at Duluth High
School.
Kendrick is a member of the Civil War
Trust, a group that seeks to preserve
battlefields and provide educational pro
grams about the war.
As part of the group, he said he had
portrayed Union Gen. William Sherman,
who is infamous in Georgia.
“The irony of a southerner wearing a
union uniform freaks some people out,"
Kendrick said.
He was at Gettysburg a few years ago.
“When I talked,” Kendrick said, he
drew looks because of his accent.
He got interested in the war when
he learned about a great-great-uncle in
Crawford County who had been killed
at the Battle of Gaines Mill at Cold Har
bor. That is in Virginia.
“I wanted to go out and actually walk
in the footsteps of my ancestor,” he said.
When he was young, he said, “I just
loved reading about stuff like that."
The Civil War Trust has a trunk with
a variety of information and items for
inspection that is used for educational
programs.
Kendrick emphasized he did not do
the program alone.
Ten “stations" were set up in the caf
eteria and about 250 students rotated
among them.
They encompassed a range of topics
about the Civil War.
The program took the first two periods
of the day. Students rotated in groups
of 25.
The stations included:
•Civil War music - bugle calls, etc.
from the time period and was run by
Joanna Kirk, the chorus teacher.
•Drills and marching cadences was
done by Jeff Blankenship, technology
teacher. Kendrick said he taught stu
dents how to march like a soldier.
•Civil War photography, Suzy Wallin,
PE and health teacher, explained images
and processes of photography during
the war.
•Civil War uniforms, Scott Turner, PE
and health teacher, demonstrated the
uniform of a Civil War soldier, including
belts, cartridge box, shoes, etc. Kend
rick noted uniforms were wool and “not
(made for) summer time and definitely
not for Georgia."
•Civil War food, Sheilah Barnett,
Family and Consumer Sciences teacher,
demonstrated some different Civil War
soldier foods.
•Women in the Civil War, Jaclyn
Brown, business and careers teacher,
provided information about a few of the
important women of the time.
•Accoutrements of the Civil War sol
dier, Pam Johnson, math apps teacher,
showed the small things like toothbrush
es, forks, plates, sewing kits, etc. the
soldiers carried in their haversacks.
•Pasttimes of the Civil War, Sandy
Love, math apps, allowed the students
to see what the soldiers did during down
time, playing basic card games, check
ers, dominoes.
•Literature in the Civil War, my
teammate, Jenny Smith, eighth-grade
English/language arts teacher, read dif
ferent stories from the time period.
•Building a regimental flag was run
by Yvonne Perry, art teacher, students
created their own flags after seeing
examples of Civil War flags.
Kendrick said he mentioned the idea
and principal Jennifer Wood “basically
gave me the keys to the car and said it’s
yours."
The event “really ended up being
exactly what I thought it could be,”
he said, andthe students "really, really
enjoyed it."
Part of the idea was to give students
a more realistic view of the Civil War.
“Ninety percent of a soldier’s time
was spent in downtime,” Kendrick said.
“Battles were really few and far
between.
“Most of the time was spent twiddling
your thumbs.”
Kendrick cited one example of a
teacher creating a lesson.
The school’s media specialist used vir
tual reality 3D goggles for the students
to “visit” Gettysburg “walk around and
view the things that we had talked about
in class.”
The classes saw 26 pictures of battle
field scenes.
Those came from Garry Adelman,
head of the education department at the
Civil War Trust, Kendrick explained.
He said he is thinking about another
project, perhaps a field trip to Atlanta.
Things “are going around in my head,”
he said.
It would be “an extension of what we
already do in class.”
Visits to the Capitol with statutes of
famous people all around, the Jimmy
Carter library, the Varsity restaurant
and Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood
home and grave could be on the agenda.
HISTORY ON DISPLAY
This display is a comparison of The 54th Massachusetts, first black regiment
in the Civil War, with the Tuskegee Airmen. It was done by Maddy Payne. The
display was part of the recent Civil War Day at Bear Creek Middle School,
where students learned about the history and various aspects of the war.
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CIVIL WAR HISTORY LESSONS
David Kendrick, the eighth-grade Georgia Studies teacher at Bear Creek
Middle School, recently played the character of a Union general and led the
students through a morning of Civil War history. The event included 10 “sta
tions” for the students that deal with a number of subjects about the war.
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