National Council for History Education

Reading the Past:

Literature and Literacy in History

Kansas City, MO

March 22-24, 2012men

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Building LiteracyHistory Through the Eyes of

Franklin and Douglass

Deborah L. JohnsAmerican History Grant

Freedom Project – Rockford, Illinois menu

Thinking chronologically

vrs. Thinking historically

Teaching History

Using Literature to

Help Build Historical

Thinking

Teaching History Using

AutobiographyConfession

MemoirAutobiography

My Tree of Life

Tree CookieProject

The Autobiography of

Benjamin Franklin“The life of a nobody who became a somebody”

“A poor boy who made it good.. And advised other to do the same" William F. Andrews University of Kansas

Our humble family early

embraced the Reformation. Our forefathers continued Protestants through the reign of Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of persecution on account of their zeal against popery.

Reading #1

The Reformation

17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History

Making Connections

A question was once,

somehow or other, started between Collins and me of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning, and of their ability for study

Reading #2

Women’s Rights

17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History

Making Connections

Reading #3

My brother had, in 1720 or ‘21, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America and was called The New England Courant……

Franklin the Printer

17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History

Making Connections

Benjamin’s Reading

List Plutarch Parallel Lives 46-120 A.D. Daniel DeFoe Essay on Projects

1697 Robinson Crusoe Mol Flander Samuel Richardson – Pamela – or

Virtue

Rewarded Cotton Mather – Essays to Do Good The Spectator

James Greenwood – English Grammar John Locke – On Human Understanding Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole Logic or the Art of Thinking 1711 Xenophon – The Memorable Things of Socrates (trans. 1711) John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress 1678

The List (cont.)

It was as once deeply impressed

upon my mind , that if Mr. Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, a powerful impetus would be given to it, and a stunning blow at the same time inflicted on northern prejudice against a colored complexion. Wm. Lloyd Garrison

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass

I have no accurate knowledge of my age….

Reading #1

1. For what three reasons, according to

Frederick, would his master not want him to find out his age?

2.Why would Peter, Isaac, Rich, and Jake have been so highly respected by other slaves on the plantation?

Discussion Questions #1

Why Inquiry?Students identify and choose

Ex. English History /Literature Women’s Suffrage/ America and the World Evolution of Print Technology - Communication

Inquiry Projects

Colonel Lloyd kept three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms that belonged to him.

Reading #2

1. Why were slaves who

committed “high misdemeanors” sent to the slave auctions to be sold?

2.Do you think the name of this overseer was Mr. Severe? 3. Write a summary paragraph of

one of the two passages in this reading

Discussion Questions #2

Reading #3My feet have been so cracked with frost that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes.

Writing your

NarrativeWrite a narrative of your life using your “Tree of Life” organizer

National History

Standards

Culture and Cultural DiversityTime, Continuity, and ChangePeople, Places and Environments

English Language Arts

Standards History/Social Studies

Common Core Standards

Deborah L. Johns NBCT

Washington Academy Rockford, Illinois 61103

deb.johns@rps205.com windows to the past.wikispaces.com