I really like the images that you have pulled together and the journal entry ideas as well. Something you might consider adding is to have them also include what motivated or influenced them to join the war (ie music, family, girlfriend, moral belief, peer pressure, etc)
Thanks for the suggestion. We did discuss the reasons to fight the war. After the reading the one point I thought students could relate to is the south fighting more for honor. I asked them how they like it when someone tells them they are doing something wrong and how they become defensive. Then we realated it to the North telling the South what they were doing was wrong and they became defensive and fought more becasue they were being questioned whether they were right or wrong didn't matter. It made for a nice discussion.
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