Objectives (SWBAT):
-Understand life as a slave in North America.
-Explain the differences between slave life in the North and slave life in the South.
-Connect what they learned in class to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
Materials: handouts, color pencils/crayons, Projector, laptop, and notebook, and portfolios
AIM: How was life as a slave in North America?
Do Now: Color in the map where slavery existed and where there were free states. Use Red for slave states, Blue for Free states, and Yellow for Territories.
Procedures:
-We are going refresh students’ memory on slavery.
-We are going to help students understand the difference between slave life in the North and slave life in the South.
-Using the research our teaching group found, we will try to get students to connect this information to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
Mini Lesson: Slideshow (Background Information on slavery and Harriet Jacobs)
The various settings of Slavery in North America
-Explain difference about slave’s conditions in North and south
-Harriet Jacobs connect these ideas to the book and Harriet Jacobs
- Introduce class and refresh memory on slavery in the north and south of America
Class Activity: Write a journal entry on your daily routine as a slave
You can start out by imagining that you’re a slave. From there on, think about what your daily routines would be.(Natalie Hyde: Write what you think slaves do everyday on the plantation)
Share Out: The students will share out what they have written.
Homework: Create a small collage on what slavery means to you and how setting affected slavery. Write a paragraph explaining your collage. Remember to cite your sources.
Work Citied: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/outline/states.pdf
