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Sailing to Freedom – Teacher Lesson Plans

2015 | 2013 | 2011

Projects 2015

Analyzing the Narrative of William Henry Singleton

Create A Historical Marker For The Underground Railroad
Seeing The Light: A Graphic Novel
Rubric for Underground Railroad Historical Marker Lesson Plan
Unit Plan for Underground Railroad Historical Marker
Understanding Historical Markers
Research Notes for Creating a Historical Marker

Discovering the Crafts on the Underground Railroad

Frederick Douglass And Ending Slavery
English Language Learner Can Do Booklet

Frederick Douglass, the Underground Railroad and New Bedford Massachusetts

From Slave Narrative To Personal Narrative

Henry’s Freedom Box

Mark Twain: Life and Views on Slavery and Relationship with Abolitionists

Practice with Passage Analysis: An Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Narative Analysis
Scoring Rubric

Primary Sources And The Underground Railroad

Primary Source Slave Narrative

Slave Narrative and Historical Methodology: Can history be learned from historical fiction?

Underground Railroad By Land And Sea

What Can We Learn From Runaway Slave Ads?
Runaway Slave Ads Transcribed

What Is Slavery?
What Is Slavery: artifact cover page

Projects 2013

African American Living History Day

Henry and the Freedom Box

Frederick Douglass – Words Set me Free

Examples of Prefixes and Suffixes in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Vocabulary in the Narrative of Douglass

Examples of Synonyms in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Themes in the Narrative of Douglass

Historical Context of the Narrative of Douglass

Reading John Thompson, Whaler and Freedom Seeker

New Bedford and Frederick Douglass

African-American Whalers

Maritime Industry and the Underground Railroad

From Slavery to Freedom

Reading Guide for Douglass by McFeely

Reading Guide for Harriet Tubman- Road to Freedom

Reading Guide for Bound for Canaan

Reading Guide for Slave Ship: A Human History

Reading Guide for Radical and Republican: Lincoln and Douglass

Abolition as a Social Reform Movement

Invisibility Past and Present

Exploring Primary Resources Relating to the Underground Railroad

Gallery Walk

Slavery and the UGRR- Analyzing Text

Projects 2011

Abolitionist Roles in the Underground Railroad between 1800-186

African Americans & Work in New Bedford, 1837

Analyze & Explain the Opposition to Ending Slavery

Connecting “Riding Freedom” to Frederick Douglass’ “Escape From Slavery”

Decoding Slave Songs – How social interaction among enslaved African-Americans assisted in the escape to freedom

Elementary Lesson on Slavery

Frederick Douglas Web Quest

Freedom Stories – Compare experiences between African-Americans who escaped via land and water using the Underground Railroad

Fugitive Slave Posters with a Twist

How did the Underground Railroad influence and effect people living in Antebellum America?

Personal Slave Narratives

Shadrach Minkins PowerPoint

Slave Narrative – A Primary Source Exercise

Wanted, City Planner New Bedford, MA, 1840

Whaling: New Bedford’s Lucrative, Yet Dangerous Pursuit

What was life like for fugitive slaves after reaching freedom via the Underground Railroad

Who Was Frederick Douglass? A Primary Source Lesson Plan

The New Bedford Historical Society seeks to establish a solid base of research and programs that will make the contributions of people of color a part of the life and and history of the region as well as a part of the permanent, public record. In the process, the history of the region in general will become fuller, deeper, and richer for everyone.

 

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