History of Chautauqua

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History of Chautauqua

• University Sojourner TruthE-Mentoring Program
• January

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Chautauqua

• An American tradition since 1874

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What is a Chautauqua?

• Instead of just focusing on entertainment,
  Chautauqua was a learning environment

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Chautauqua Events

• Entire communities would attend a Chautauqua to
  hear musical performances, lectures, scientific
  and technological discoveries and listen to
  debates on political and religious issues

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Freedom School Chautauqua

• The Chautauqua will have an Underground Railroad
  theme and all of us will become part of groups
  who will create, plan, and present an aspect of
  the Underground Railroad at the Chautauqua

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By Discipline

• Each group of sophomores will choose a project.

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Be Creative

• Choose a topic that not only interests you but
  will also give you insight to various subjects
  and disciplines

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Geography

• Map a specific route of the Underground Railroad
  through a state or through the United States

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Biology

• Create a Freedom Garden

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Architecture

• Create or construct a model of a house and the
  hiding places that exist with inside the building
• Or create a false bottom wagon or a box that
  Henry Box Brown mailed himself to freedom in

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English

• Write a Praise Poem create and perform your poem
  on freedom or who you are
• Read a book on the Underground Railroad and
  perform an oral report on the book and author

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Math

• Graph the time and distance traveled by an
  escaped slave

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Music

• Learn and perform songs and dance used to
  communicate about the Underground Railroad by
  slaves

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Theater

• Create and perform a one-act play about slavery
  or the Underground Railroad

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Astronomy

• Diagram constellations and define those that
  would have assisted slaves as they escaped to the
  North

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History

• Research a particular person or event in history
  that is significant to the Underground Railroad
  and present the biographical information at the
  Chautauqua

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Start Projects

• Get into your groups and get started!