vs. Railroad
Grade Levels: 4 –5
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts
Learner Outcomes: To demonstrate knowledge of words and phrases
used as codes on
the Underground Railroad.
Duration of Lesson: 1 forty-five minute traditional class period
Materials: Paper, pencil
Technology Tools/Courseware: digital projector
Teacher Notes:
AUP Policy must be in place for all students.
Literature connection book If
You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by
Ellen Levine.
Procedures:
1. Explain to students that during the time of the
Underground Railroad, people
involved developed a special
vocabulary of words and phrases.
2. Ask students to provide explanations of why secret
words and phrases would
be necessary.
3. Students will view Presentation “Underground
Railroad Code Words and Phrases”
4. Discuss each of the words and phrases in the
presentation with the students.
5. Divide the students into two groups.
Instructions
for group one:
You are a family in a station on the Underground Railroad. Your
assignment is to provide directions to the slaves fleeing a
southern plantation using the codes and phrases of the Underground
Railroad.
Instructions for group
two:
You are a group of runaway slaves from a southern plantation. You
must interpret and follow the directions given to you by the family
in the station (group one).
6. Explain that during this activity the students
will earn 5 points for each code
word or phrase they use
correctly.
7. Allow time for students in group one and group
two to reverse roles.
Modifications: Group special needs students with a peer buddy.
Evaluation/Assessment:
Students will receive five points for each code
word or phrase used correctly.
Enrichment Activities: Literature connection If
You Traveled on the Underground
Railroad by Ellen
Levine.
WV and National Standards:
West
Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:
Social Studies: 5.45
National Standards:
Social Studies
Understand how people over the last 200 years have continued to struggle
to bring all groups of American society the liberties and equality
promised in the basic principles of American democracy
Understand how songs, symbols, and slogans demonstrate freedom of
expression and the role of protest in democracy.
Understand the accomplishments of ordinary people in historical situations
and how each struggled for individual rights for the common good
Job/Career Clusters: historian
References: http://mcrel.org/
http://wvde.state.wv.us
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine.
Authors:
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b.a.alfred@citynet.net |
jsgorrell@wvadventures.net |
pking@access.k12.wv.us |
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