Thank-you you so much for your performance (Witness to Gettysburg) for our 8th grade class. It was wonderful to have the vocabulary list and the student outline. We reviewed them yesterday and today and the students wanted me to tell you the following things about what they learned:

The students enjoyed the details about your work in the hospital. They said they thought you were really there. They felt that your description of the battles and the aftermath were equally as wonderful. They had a vision of everything you were telling them in their head as you were saying it. The students felt that your emotions were genuine, especially when you were reading the letters from the soldiers. The girls loved your dresses. The students loved your voice and really enjoyed learning about details that you don’t find in a book. (How the food was contaminated from the latrine being emptied in the river where the cooks pulled the water to make dinner, how the people did not know about germs, how communication was done with music, how long it took a soldier to heal). They liked having the differences between how it was then and now pointed out to them.