BOOK GUIDES
Extend students' learning with discussion topics for Chains, a National Book Award finalist. The questions in this…
ACTIVITIES
Visit New Bedford, Massachusetts, which was an integral part of the Underground Railroad.
LESSON PLANS
Work with students to perform a Native American song and dance, Owl Dance. Allow them to describe and analyze the drum…
WORKSHEETS
This teaching guide includes author interviews, discussion questions, cross-curricular activities, and reading…
Students identify states by their shapes and then sort the list by whether it was a free or slave state in 1787.
Word puzzles hold the answers to clues about issues of slavery in the United States.
DAILY WARM-UPS
Develop students' reading skills with this printable passage of historical fiction and comprehension questions. This…
This printable map will help students locate Underground Railroad sites in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Share the secret code of the Underground Railroad with your students. In this activity, children match the Underground…
Connect social studies and language arts with this writing prompt. Students will research slavery during the 1800s and…
This reading guide for Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson includes a pre-reading activity about the French and Indian War,…
REFERENCE
Read about Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American reformer and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Nathan and Polly Johnson helped many slaves find their way to freedom in the 1800s -- including Frederick Douglass.
The Friends Meetinghouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts was the site of abolitionist activity in the 1800s. View pictures…
A brief article about abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Interesting facts and fun activities related to anti-slavery campaigner John Brown.
Offer a rational opinion about a hypothetical situation involving conscience versus the law.
This printable warm-up helps students master important reading skills with a nonfiction passage about the invention of…
