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…
Teach young children about the lives of former slaves and their families during the Reconstruction Era with the picture…
Students put together a book that details the end of slavery in the United States.
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.
TEACHING RESOURCE
Learn about the horrendous conditions aboard the slave ships that carried Africans to America.
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.
This discussion guide to The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party by…
A list of the passengers on the Mayflower and a brief history of the sail.
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,…
This discussion and genealogy guide for Tea Cakes for Tosh—written by Kelly Starling Lyons and illustrated by E. B.…
Introduce students to the slave narrative genre, then begin an in-depth study with Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of…
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave is easy to read; it makes the perfect selection for…
Enhance students' understanding of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the reading activities and questions in this…
REFERENCE
Read about Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American reformer and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The site of a booming whaling industry in the 1800s and a place where many slaves first set foot on free soil.
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…
