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Wanted
Reward Dead or Alive...
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Runaway! Stephen has escaped from his Master, Levi Parks, in Alabama.
What is the value
of a six foot young man who can read and (maybe) write in 1852?
Examine this emphera
broadside
document from 1838.
What are his physical characteristics and what is the reward offered for
his return?
Compare those posters to this
one from Boston?
Who is being warned and why? Do you think they could read this poster?
Examine "Escaping
Child in Trunk" and answer the questions in the text.
Would you try to escape and runaway from this place?
Were the slaves
or the conductors in more danger?
Discuss these visuals and questions as a whole class activity.
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Catch
them if you can...
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How
were slaves transported?
With a partner or as a team, learn about these people mentioned in Hayden's
poem.
Use a KWL
graphic organizer and a Venn
diagram to help you organize this assignment.
Who was slave? Who was abolitionist?
Who was black? Who was white?
What further accomplishments did this person have?
What did they contribute to the cause of the UGRR?
Does any of the information given at these Web sites conflict?
Create a group presentation about the lives of these people
and their relationship to the UGRR
(title slide, slide for each person, credit slide)
In your journal, write about the person you felt contributed the
most to the UGRR.
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You
keep on going now or die...
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Pieces
of paper that make us free…
Learning about the Fugitive
Slave Act (1850) and the Emancipation
Proclamation
is a hard task because of the
words whose meaning you may not know.
Build a classroom word bank from these two documents or create a word
frame
(1/3 word —2/3 definition— 3/3 draw a picture depicting the
word)
of your own for your portfolio.
With your group or team create a poem with each student
selecting a word or two to make a single stanza (show the definition!)
Pieces
of cloth that show us the way…
Oral
history is hard to prove. Examine these writings
about quilt blocks
and the idea that these were signposts
along the way.
Use this project
by elementary students as part of your investigation.
Secret codes are exciting
to learn about but is this real history?
Just because quilting is a popular
and useful hobby
is it true enough to be taught as truth?
Take a survey of the groups in your class as to who
thinks this is theory and who thinks this is fact.
Song that shows us the way...
The Drinking
Gourd is a song with a secret message.
Read and discuss this
article
about the song as a whole class activity.
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First
stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah…
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I'll
be buried in my grave…
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An
old expression states that when people die "they go to their reward".
Survey some older people to try to define what this means
and write about it in your journal.
These biographies and photographs are placed here
by ordinary people who wish to honor their memory.
Look at each gravestone carefully. Are they modest or impressive?
Read about African
American Cemeteries and AA
Cemeteries Online
and this article about Black
Cemetery History
Who are the famous people memorialized in your city or town?
What were their accomplishments?
Take digital images of these places in your town/city and create
a classroom display.
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Shadow
of a face...shadow of a voice...
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Robert
Hayden's poem is filled with references to shadows,
voices and other unseen things.
It is important
to understand about the life of the poet to fully
understand the circumstances of his thoughts while writing.
Investigate these links about the life of the poet.
What events in his young life may have contributed to his work?
In what way was he, himself, enslaved?
What great honor was bestowed upon him?
Based on what you learned about gravestones, design a memorial
stone for Hayden
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