Integrated Literacy Assignment

By: Molly Bordeau

5 – U2.2.2 Describe the life of enslaved Africans and free

Africans in the American colonies.

(National Geography Standard 5, p. 152

US Map before the Civil War

• http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/• This map shows the state that allowed slavery, the ones that

opposed slavery, and the states that were indifferent to slavery.

Slavery and the Underground Railroadhttp://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=142536&title=Slavery_and_the_Underground_Railroad

Gallery of Runaway Slave Images

• http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog09/feature/gallery_00.html

Interactive Underground Railroad• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/

underground_railroad/plantation.htm

This interactive website will help students to better understand what life was like for slaves escaping to freedom.

The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo by K.J. McWilliams

Ruby Jo is a 12 year old slave girl living on a plantation in South Carolina. She learns to read and write at a forbidden school in the forest at night. When she is living in Charles Town for the summer, she witnesses Blackbeard and 400 pirates holding Charles Town hostage in order to obtain medical supplies.

Music in slave life

• Music

National Geographic Interactive Underground Railroad

• Interactive Railroad

Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1863 by Paul Erickson

Combining words and images, this book will teach children what life was like on a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853 from the viewpoint of the landowners and the slaves.

Imagining Freedom During or After Civil War

• Political quiz

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed GirlThis novel tells the story of a newly freed girl, Patsy, who lives on a plantation. Patsy is able to read and write, which is something that sets her apart from other slaves. Patsy walks with a limp and because of that others think that she is dull witted. When other find out about her ability to read and write, she becomes a teacher at the plantation. During this time Patsy wonders if family members will ever come to the plantation to get her, now that she is free to leave.