Summary
Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!
- First, we encode the name MUFFINS.
- Next we decode a secret message about MY CAT.
- Finally, students are free to play with the cipher and then compare it with the Shift Cipher.
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