UNDERGROUNDRAILROAD

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 * UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ASSIGNMENT **


 * I. ASSIGNMENT: **

You are a black slave who escaped from the American South. Write a post card or audio recording home that you are sending to your family telling them of the journey and where in Canada that you settled in. You are to make two assignments:


 * 1) A post card or audio recording depicting your journey part way...but still not free
 * 2) A post card or audio recording depicting your new free life in Upper Canada. Make sure you choose an actual location and research free Black settlements.
 * II. PRINT RESOURCES: **

306.362 PET Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 326 KIL The Slave Trade 920.72 FOR 100 Canadian Heroines 971 PRI I came as a Stranger: the Underground Railroad 971.042 EDW Underground Railroad: Flight to Freedom; Irrepressible Conflict 971.004 WIN The Blacks in Canada: A History 971.7 DEN The Underground Railroad 971.3 SHA The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! 973.7 TOB From Midnight to Dawn: the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad 973.7115 WIL The Underground Railroad
 * GENERAL COLLECTION: **

 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|World Book Online Advanced] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Canadian Encyclopedia :Underground Railroad - Historica Canada] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">III. USEFUL WEBSITES: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A. REFERENCE SITES: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Must include some of the following terms used in the correct context:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">B. KEY TERMS: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Abolitionist
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">stationmasters
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">heaven
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Emancipation
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">passengers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">terminals
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Agents
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">shepherds
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">cargo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Conductors
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ticket
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">tracks
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Stations
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">stockholders
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"the promise land"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Check these sites out to help you define your terms: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Underground Railroad Terminology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Underground Railroad Glossary]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Abolition of Slavery in Canada] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Canadian Settlements] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom - National Geographic] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Journey to Freedom] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Underground Railroad From The Heritage Minutes Collection] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Underground Railroad: Finding Freedom in the Niagara Region] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Underground Railroad - Spartacus Educational] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Under a Northern Star - Library and Archives Canada] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada - Library and Archives Canada] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Black History Canada - Underground Railroad Historica Canada] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|On the Road North - Black Canada and Journey to Freedom] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|People & Events The Underground Railroad - PBS] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Aboard the Underground Railroad] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Underground Railway: Escape From Slavery <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Canada and the Underground Railroad: Tracks to Freedom - Ottawa Citizen <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Underground Railroad American Civil War] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|History: the Underground Railroad]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">C. GENERAL SITES: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Canadian Encyclopedia] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|World Book Advanced Online] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Encyclopedia Britannica Online - High School] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Harriet Tubman Biography] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Harriet Tubman] [|Josiah Henson - Historica Canada] [|Josiah Henson - Biography] [| Simcoe Day: Canada's roots in slavery and the historic abolition] [|Alexander Ross: Abolitionists - Underground to Canada] [|Abolitionists] [|Underground Railroad: The William Still Story] [|William Still (1821-1902)] [| William Still, Philadelphia] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bibb, Henry (1815-1854)] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Henry Walton Bibb (1815-1854)] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|16 Isaac Hopper] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Hopper, Isaac T. (1771-1852) - Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion] [|Henry Box Brown, a Determined and Innovative Abolitionist] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Henry "Box" Brown] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Brown, Henry Box - Encyclopedia of American History, 1619-1895] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|HENRY BOX BROWN (1815 or 16–after 1878)] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Peter Still's Story] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Peter Still: Freeing his family meant paying off the slave owner]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">D. IMPORTANT PEOPLE: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Use the following sites to locate information about the important people involved in the Underground railroad. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A. General Sites: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Harriet Tubman **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Josiah Henson **
 * ** John Graves Simcoe **
 * ** Alexander Ross **
 * ** William Still **
 * ** Henry Bibb **
 * ** Isaac Hopper **
 * ** Henry Box Brown **
 * ** Peter Still **

<span style="color: #102dad; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> This is a postcard so must be formatted to look like one. Post cards have one or two pictures on the front and then have an address and short message on back. Use the Lifecard App on iPads. <span style="color: #102dad; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">or <span style="color: #102dad; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Design a few pages in the Book Creator App and do an audio recording with some pictures. This should be descriptive and have appropriate pictures that you narrate. Keep it to max 2 minutes. Start by writing a script.
 * <span style="color: #102dad; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Format: **

Step 1 Research more on how slaves escaped and traveled north. Step 2 Choose a location for your postcard or audio recording where in the American south you left. Also choose a location in Upper Canada where you fled to. Step 3 Save some photos to photo roll on iPad Step 4 Use LifeCards app to create & write your postcard. Or use **BookCreator** App to add pictures and an audio recording your journey. Export your postcards to the Camera roll when you are finished.

Step 5

Submit it to Mr. Reid via your iPad



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 * <span style="color: #e44d57; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Criteria /50: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Accuracy: Topic seems well researched
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Topic is complete and follows criteria
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use of Images & Organization
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Creativity

<//http://jonieu.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/child_labours_in_asia.jpg//> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|What is modern slavery?] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Factsheet : Slavery Today] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Slavery Today] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Slavery and Child Labor Today]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">E. SLAVERY TODAY SITES: **