Slavery: Underground Railroad Resource Unit

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Slavery Underground Railroad Resource Unit

• Amber Harper

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Content

• The Underground Railroad is one part of history
  that not only African-American students need to
  be educated on but all students. The key purpose
  of this unit is to inform and education students
  on the Underground Railroad and slavery. Students
  need to understand the impact of these events in
  American society.
• Throughout 1-2 weeks (if necessary) students
  will experience slavery and Underground Railroad
  by completing numerous activities. Most of the
  learning will be done in the classroom. One
  Friday the students will go on a field trip to
  The Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio to see an actual
  stop on the Underground Railroad.

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Vocabulary

• Slave
• Freedom (what is meant for slaves)
• Civil War
• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
• Abolitionist
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Underground Railroad
• Conductor
• Master

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Objectives/Goals

• To educate students about the importance and
  impact the Underground Railroad has in history.
• Students will learn what is meant to be a slave.
  (Daily life)
• Students will understand the importance of
  slavery in the United States.

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Day 1 Activities

• Students will look up vocabulary words. Then
  students will use the map of the United States to
  identity and label the routes of The Underground
  Railroad in Ohio. When students are finished they
  are to select a book from the classroom library
  (about the Underground Railroad or something
  dealing with slavery) to read over the course of
  the week.

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Day 2 Activities

• Students can travel down the Underground
  Railroad as if they were slaves themselves. Along
  the way students will have to make choices that
  slaves would have had to make. Use the computer
  and go to this website. http//www.nationalgeograp
  hic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
• After students are finish have them write a one
  page paper about the experience. (From a slave
  point of view)

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Day 3 Activities

• Students will watch the DVD, A Nation Divided
  American Civil War. After viewing students will
  write a letter to President Lincoln about their
  thoughts on the war.

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Day 4 Activities

• Students will visit a virtual slave plantation
  to see how it operated daily. http//www.slaveryin
  america.org/history/hs_lp_melrose1.htm
• After completing the virtual tour students can
  create a diagram of a typical slave house.

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Activity 5

• Students will go on a
• field trip to the Rankin
• House in Ripley, Ohio.
• This will allow students
• to see first hand an
• actual stop on the
• journey to freedom.

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Day 6 and/or 7 Activities

• First a short review of the unit. Then a unit
  test.

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Evaluation

• Unit Test
• Who was not a conductor on the Underground
  Railroad?
• Harriet Tubman
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Rankin
• None of the above

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• True or False.
• The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed all
  slaves.
• Slaves got their freedom after 10 years.
• The Underground Railroad was a real railroad with
  stations all down the Ohio River.
• Slaves were often separated from their families.

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• Slaves were free if they escaped and made it to
  Canada.
• The slave populations in the South were majority
  made up of
• Latinos
• African-Americans
• Asians
• Spaniards

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• Slaves were
• Treated fairly by everyone.
• People that wanted to be slaves.
• People that were taken from their native land
  forced to work in poor conditions.
• None of the above

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Essay Question (Choose One)

• Describe the daily life of a slave.
• Explain in detail what the Underground Railroad
  is. (names of conductors, stops, etc)
• What is the Civil War? Explain one cause of it.

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Teacher Resources

• Media
• 1.http//www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_me
  lrose1.htm
• A virtual slave plantation that students can
  explore.
• 2.http//www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/ra
  ilroad/j1.html
• An enter active game where students can travel
  down the Underground Railroad and make choices
  along the way.
• 3. http//www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.h
  tml
• Harriet Tubman The Underground Railroad
• This site has book lists, vocabulary words,
  crossword puzzles, maps, photos, classroom
  activities and much more.
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Teacher Resources

• Videos
• Underground Railroad (History Channel) (2002)
• A Nation Divided American Civil War.
• American History for Kids Slavery and Plantation
  LifeDirector Christopher Lewis

• Harriet Tubman Animated Hero Classics (1996)
• Race to Freedom The Story of the Underground
  Railroad (1994)
• Slavery and the Making of America Starring
  Morgan Freeman Narrator

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More Teacher Resources

• Music
• Stories from American History on Music Video "On
  An Underground Railroad lyrics and music by
  Kinny Landrum http//www.ushistory.com/railr.htm
• Slave Work Songs by Colonial WilliamsburgThis
  site has a list of different songs with the
  lyrics. Each song is able to be listened to from
  the site. http//www.history.org/history/teaching/
  enewsletter/february03/worksongs.cfm
• Slave Shout Songs From the Coast of Georgia by
  Mcintosh County Shouters

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Teacher/Student Resources

• Books
• The Underground Railroad for kids from slavery
  to freedom with 21 activities by Carson, Mary
  Kay.
• Many thousand gone African Americans from
  slavery to freedom /by Hamilton, Virginia
  1936-2002
• Jip his story /by Paterson, Katherine
• A good night for freedom /by Morrow, Barbara
  Olenyik.
• Amos Fortune free man /by Yates, Elizabeth,
  1905-
• An apple for Harriet Tubman /by Turner, Glennette
  Tilley.
• Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad /by
  Martin, Michael, 1948-
• The Underground railroad /by Hudson, Wade.
• I came as a stranger the Underground Railroad
  /by Prince, Bryan, 1952-
• The Emancipation Proclamation /by Armentrout,
  David, 1962-

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Student Resources

• 1.http//www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal
  /feature2c.html
• 2.http//www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_me
  lrose1.htm
• 3.http//www.blackfacts.com/fact.asp?ID920
• 4. http//www.historyforkids.org/

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More Student Resources

• 5. TO BE A SLAVE by Julius Lester (Puffin Books,
  2000)
• 6. Time For Kids Harriet Tubman A Woman of
  Courage by Editors of TIME For Kids
• 7. . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
  (Paperback)
• 8. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad by
  J. Blaine Hudson