Time Required
	The amount of time for each aspect of the learning experience:

Planning - If the materials provided are used and the guidelines to the Internet websites followed, planning time will be shortened. Time should be taken to glue the documents and the directions to poster board or construction paper. Arranging the room will take about five minutes. Planning will take longer if the teacher prefers to use local documents or to create different learning stations. Depending on which way the teacher proceeds, this step could take a day to a week.

Instructions - This activity is based on forty-three minute class periods. It will take the students at least two to two and one half class periods to complete the ten stations. Discussion time also varies depending on the questions the students may have, the feedback the teacher heard as he/she circulated around the classroom, and the type of questions the teacher prepares for discussion. These are some of the possible questions for discussion:

• What did you expect to learn?
• What did you learn?
• What was the hardest thing about this activity?
• What were the hardships encountered by the soldiers?
• What can you conclude about life of a Civil War solider?
• What do the personal letters tell us about the war and the feelings of the soldiers?

Assessment - It will take the students three days outside of class (homework nights or study halls) to do a good job on the assessment. If the students are asked to type the assignment, the teacher may want to give them more time. If class time is used to complete this assessment, the students are able to complete the rough draft in one period and the final draft in another.

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