Take a Ride on the Road to Freedom

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Take a Ride on the Road to Freedom

• Staci, Andrea, Alecia, Chrissy

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What do you think of when you hear the term
African American?

• Slavery?
• Oppression?
• Torture?
• Riots?
• Segregation?
• Inequality?
• Injustice?

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What About

• Strength?
• Courage?
• Bravery?
• Determination?
• Empowerment?
• Peaceful defiance?

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Follow the drinking Gourd
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Follow the drinking gourd

• The riverbank makes a very good road,
• The dead trees will show you the way.
• Left foot, peg foot, traveling on,
• Follow the Drinking Gourd.
• The river ends between two hills,
• Follow the Drinking Gourd.
• Theres another river on the other side,
• Follow the Drinking Gourd.
• When the great big river meets the little river,
• Follow the Drinking Gourd.
• For the old man is waiting for to carry you to
  freedom,
• Follow the Drinking Gourd.

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Spirituals

• Wade in the Water
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Free at Last
• Go Down Moses
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

• Many Thousand Gone
• No Trouble at the River
• Hold on Just a Little While Longer
• Soon I Will be Done

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Extensions

• Draw a map and locate the rivers along the slave
  escape route.
• Have the class discuss how quilts were used to
  guide slaves to freedom.
• Divide the class into small groups. Have them
  discuss the pros and cons of helping slaves.
• Travel the road of an escape slave at
  www.nationalgeographic.com

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Primary Lesson

• Minty The Life of a Young Harriet Tubman
• By Alan Schroeder Jerry Pinkney
• Students learn the childhood life of Harriet
  Tubman.
• Compare Contrast their lives to her.
• Language Arts Social Studies

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Primary Lesson

• Escape North
• By Monica Culling
• Students learn about the Underground Railroad and
  Harriet Tubman.
• Students learn songs and code words slaves used
  to communicate with each other.
• Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

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Intermediate Lesson

• Aunt Harriets Underground Railroad in the Sky
• by Faith Ringgold
• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
• by Deborah Hopkinson
• Students learn about the importance of quilts in
  the success of the Underground Railroad.
• Students construct their own quilt squares using
  cardinal directions to make a class quilt.
• Language Arts Geography

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Intermediate Lesson

• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• by Bernadine Connelly
• Children learn the importance of spirtuals and
  other oral traditions.
• Language Arts Social Studies

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Middle School Lesson

• Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground
  Railroad
• by Ann Petry
• Students will search internet and other book
  sources.
• Based on the information, students internalize
  the meaning of being a slave on the Underground
  Railroad and write a narrative.
• Language Arts, Social Studies

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Middle School Lesson

• Civil War Almanac by Justin Segal
• Civil War A-Z by Norman Bolotin
• The Civil War 1861-1863 by Rebecca Stefoff
• Students will use research texts and internet
  sources to create a Civil War Timeline focusing
  on the abolition of slavery.
• Language Arts, Social Studies

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Books

• Picture Books
• Dinner at Aunt Connies House by Faith Ringgold
• A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David Adler
  Samual Byrd
• Multicultural Books
• Freedom Crossin by Margret Goff Clark
• If You Traveled the Underground Railroad by Ellen
  Levine Richard Willams
• Poetry
• Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson
  James E. Ransome
• Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
• Traditional Fantasy
• Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah
  Hopkinson
• Fantasy
• Aunt Harriets Underground Railroad in the Sky by
  Faith Ringgold
• Contemporary Realistic Fiction
• Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone
• Who Comes with Cannons by Patricia Beatty
• Bright Freedom Song by Gloria Houston

• Historical Fiction
• Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi
• Runaway to Freedom Barbara Smucker
• Informational
• Civil War A-Z by Norman Bolotin
• Life on the Underground Railroad by Stuart A.
  Kallen.
• The Civil War 1861-1863 by Rebecca Setoff
• Get on the Board by Jim Haskins
• Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton
• The Drinking Gourd by Ann Monjo
• If You Lived in the Time of Civil War by Kay
  Moore Anni Matsick
• The River Jordan by Henry Burke Dick Croy
• Great Black Heroes Five Brave Explorers by Wade
  Hudson
• Biography
• Harriet Tubman by Kathie smith
• Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
• Bound for the North Star by Dennis Brindell
  Fradin
• Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery by Russell
  Roberts
• Let it Shine by Stephen Alcorn