WEEK 2

Main Goals: Continue to Discuss the History Slavery, Analyze Primary Sources, and Introduce Interviewing

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Topic: Lab: Primary Source Underground Railroad Civil War & Slavery Lab: Life of a Slave Girl Introduction to Interviewing
Assessment Primary Source Protocol and Questioning
Assessment

Students Will: Analyze Frederick Douglass's Be listening to a lecture Be listening to a short Analyze Harriet Jacobs' Students will be learning
A Narrative about the Underground lecture about Civil War Incidents in the Life of a about the interview lab
Railroad and the role it slavery and abolitionists. Slave Girl. Using this, they assignment, the correct way
of the Life of Frederick played in slaves' lives and They will then be using will answer the to interview someone, how
Douglass, an American in escaping. Students will internet resources to find Document Based to approach the
Slave excerpts. Students will see pictures and slides of and read a northern Question, which will help interviewee, how to develop
use this resource to answer a Underground Railroad black soldier's journal them learn how to asses good questions for a
Document Based Question conductors' letters. We will entries and a Southern primary sources and narrative assignment, and
(DBQ). Students will learn then have a class white soldier's journal to interpret their what questions to ask for
how to assess primary discussion about the roles observe differences in information. They will their interviews. The actual
sources and interpret their and dangers of helping each perspective. also gain an interview will take place in
information. Students will fugitive slaves and what Students will then create understanding of the life the English classroom.
also gain a better choices the students a small poster using of a slave around the
understanding of slaves' would make. words and pictures to time of the Civil War.
lives. compare these
perspectives.

Teacher Will: Provide a short presentation Lecture about the Providing a short lecture Introduce Harriet Jacobs Teacher will be discussing
on Frederick Douglass, and Underground Railroad and about slavery and the excerpts and help put the interviewing assignment,
assist students as they use present images and Civil War along with the this into historical the topics of interviewing
primary sources to complete examples of documents. soldiers' online journal context. Teacher will and questioning using
the DBQ. The teacher will also entries. He or she will also assist students as lecture, PowerPoint
facilitate discussion on also make sure the they use primary sources presentation, class
why/why not students students are on task and to complete DBQ discussion, and a modeled
would help fugitive slaves. are understanding the interview..
material.
Assessment: Assess students' DBQ on their Assess students' discussion Students will produce a Assess students' DBQ. Students will project their
ability to construct an and class participation. poster comparing the Look at how they understanding of the topics
argument/thesis and Look at what they write in perspectives of white construct their argument through an informal
support it with relevant and their ending journal. Assess and black soldiers during and the relevance of assessment by the teacher,
meaningful information their short homework the Civil War. their supporting details. and by their final result of
through their analysis of assignment the interview lab.
primary sources.