Provide a metaview, lifting students into a wider view of the concept. Use another medium (not reading or writing) to connect students' personal knowing to the concept (i.e. visual arts, music, movement, metaphor, etc.) Involve learners in reflective production that blends the emotional and the cognitive.
With “Steal Away” playing, students create image words or pictures of feelings of escaping slavery.
Objective: Students will reflect on the book and discussion and create an image of their idea of the feelings of an escaping slave.
Activity: With the tape Steal Away playing, students will either write about (in any genre) or draw a picture of what it might feel like to be a runaway slave. The pictures and written descriptions should be displayed around or just outside the classroom.
Assessment: Quality of student pictures or descriptions.
The Struggle for Freedom
Subject:
Social Studies
Grade:
Intermediate
Concept:
Freedom
Bridge:
Escaping
Content:
Comparisons of Underground Railroad Movement and Civil Rights Leaders of 1950-1960