Date: 9-25-08

Lead Teacher: Sara Burton

Title:  How does it feel?

Summary:  Students will understand the horrors slaves lived through that pushed them to set out on the dangerous journey to freedom.

 

Date: 10-2-08

Lead Teacher: Brittany Buchanan

Title: Which way to the station?

Summary: Students will better understand what the underground railroad was, who were involved in it, and what impact it had on the outcome of slavery. Students will learn the affect that the stories Harriet Beecher Stowe heard from fugitives slaves became a basis for her novel. Students will experience bare feet on gravel similar to how fugitive slaves felt. Students will analyze the book Follow the Drinking Gourd.

 

Date: 10-9-08

Lead Teacher: Sara Burton

Title:  What came first Native Americans or slaves?

Summary: Student will review why slaves left plantations and about Native Americans who also helped slaves escape.  Students will create tableaus exhibiting emotions connected with fleeing from slavery.

 

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Lead Teacher: Brittany Buchanan

Title: Why did Harriet write Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Summary: Students will understand what Uncle Tom’s Cabin is about and why Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it. They will learn about the plot and characters of the book and how Harriet researched enslavement in order to write a accurate novel. Students will also understand the great impact that the novel had on the nation and why people all over the world still study it today. Students will create a mock book cover.

 

Date:  11-13-08

Lead Teacher: Sara Burton

Title:  Where slaves the only people without rights?

Summary: Students will learn about the concurrent struggle of women for rights.  Students will understand that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family also supported the rights and education of women.  Students will see the long and difficult struggle of various groups to gain the right to vote.

 

Date: 11-20-08

Lead Teacher: Brittany Buchanan

Title: What was life like after Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Summary: Students will learn about the end of slavery and will understand the struggles that freed slaves continued to have for decades later. There will be emphasis on the different amendments that were passed after the Civil War to give newly freed blacks more rights. Students will determine which black codes were actual laws and will play a board game that depicts life as a freed black man in the late 1800’s.