Projects
 
 
What is Unfreedom?
 
Thursday, September 25, 2008
 
For our first lesson, we read Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine. We used maps to talk about how slaves were brought on ships from Africa to the United States. We also
 
Elijah P. Lovejoy
 
Thursday, October 3, 2008
 
Today, we used a timeline to talk about Elijah P. Lovejoy’s life. We also got to see what a printing press from the 1800s looked like - it was huge! Our group used rubber
 
The Underground Railroad
 
Thursday, October 9, 2008
 
In this lesson, we read Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson. We learned that the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all, but a secret network of safe
 
Project WOW Heroes of Freedom
 
Thursday, November 6, 2008
 
Today’s lesson was really neat, because we used a concept map to link together all twelve Project WOW heroes of freedom. There are so many! Thomas Garrett, Harriet B.
 
Children of the 1800s
 
Thursday, November 13, 2008
 
Today we talked about what life was like for children in the United States during the 1800s. We learned that some things were very different for kids in the Nineteenth
 
Contemporary Unfreedom
 
Thursday, November 20, 2008
 
For our final lesson, we read and talked about The Big Box by Toni Morrison. We also talked about news articles that were written about unfreedom all over the world. Our
 
Take a look at all of the wonderful things Team Lovejoy accomplished during Project WOW!