WEEK ONE: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: A FREEDOM MOVEMENT Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8:30 9:15 8:309:15

5 8:309:15 8:309:15 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 9:1510:15 9:15-10:15 9:1510:15 9:1510:15 Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 Science Science Geography: Groups Geography: Groups Coded Language: create map scales for calculate the amount Students explore and the journey from a of time it would take create alternative southern city to the to make the journey forms of north and identify key north communication locations and physical features 11:1512:00 Art 11:1512:00 Music 11:1512:00 Computers: Interactive Underground Railroad simulation 12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 1 & 2 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Vocabulary: Students match vocabulary to significant actors of UR 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: 11:1512:00 P.E. 11:1512:00 Library

12:0012:45 Brainstorming: Concept map on freedom 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Gallery walk: pictorial representations of slavery 2:153:00 Writers Workshop:

12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Follow the Drinking Gourd 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Jigsaw: Groups become experts on significant figures in UR 2:153:00 Writers Workshop:

12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 3 & 4 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Compare/Contrast: lifestyle in North vs. South 2:153:00 Writers Workshop:

12:0012:45: Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 5 & 6 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Code creation: Students create their own messages 2:153:00 Writers Workshop:

Journal Entry from a seed moment in the life of a slave 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Journal Entry why a slave would choose to risk all to escape 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Journal Entry what obstacles one face along the journey 2:55-3:09 Pack up/dismissal WEEK TWO Wednesday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:15-10:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Geography/Science: Students explore the different ways runaway slaves utilized cardinal direction 11:1512:00 Computers: Interactive Underground Railroad simulation (contd) 12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 11 & 12 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Life After Freedom

Journal Entry what signs were used along the journey 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Journal Entry on communicating secretly 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Monday 8:30 9:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Science

Tuesday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Science

Thursday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Symbols of freedom: Students will explore significant symbols of the abolition movement 11:1512:00 P.E.

Friday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Walking Trip to Liberty Bell

11:1512:00 Art

11:1512:00 Music

12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 7 & 8 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Poetry: Students

12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 9 & 10 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Clothesline Timeline:

12:0012:45 Read Aloud: Freedom Train Chapter 13 & 14 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Emancipation

12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Liberty Bellstudents

create a classroom poem 2:153:00 Writers workshop: students write a poem as if they were a runaway slave 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Significant dates

students compare/contrast life during after slavery 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: students write the hardships former slaves faced in the North 2:55-3:09 Pack up/dismissal

2:153:00 Writers workshop: students write the questions a runaway slave may have had 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Proclamation: This was the document that ended slavery and the UR 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Students write how freedom tasted 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

write the significance of the Liberty Bell 2:153:00 Assessment

2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal