Write an informative paper of at least five hundred words on a topic from the Civil War era of American history of your choosing. Conduct research and cite the credible sources in text and in a works cited at the end of the paper. Make sure that you revise for ideas and conventions, as well as active sentences. Build a presentation that engages an audience of your peers. The presentation will incorporate multimedia and include the key ideas of your research.

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.