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"All Aboard" is a Webquest about the Underground Railroad. It is tied to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for eighth grade information skills. This activity is a wonderful resource for Black History Month in February or as a follow-up to reading the novels Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lyddie, or A House of Dies Drear.
What would life have been
like for slaves? To avoid this harsh treatment, what alternatives
would you try? The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor
a railroad, but a secret escape route for fugitive slaves to free states.
It was run by local antislavery activists. Every home that welcomed
runaways was considered part of the Underground Railroad. You are
traveling abroad a time machine and arrive in the year 1851. You
have been transformed into an antislavery activist as a conductor on the
Underground Railroad. Each of you is trying to protect your livelihood
while helping less fortunate in this great protest against slavery.
| North to Liberty; The Story of the Underground Railroad by Anne Terry White (301.45 Whi) |
| Who Comes With Cannons by Patricia Beatty (F Bea) |
| Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong (F Arm) |
| The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (F Ham) |
| Dear Friend by Judith Bentley (973.7 Ben) |
| Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton (973.7 Ham) |
| Harriet Ross Tubman by Don Troy (305.5 Tro) |
| LearnStar: US History-Abolitionists |
| The Quest for Freedom: The Harriet Tubman Story (VC 326 Que) |
| Fredrick Douglass (VC 326 Dou) |
Students will be evaluated on their journal
entries, quality of their poster and quality of their safe house floor
plan. The students will be rated by the rubric presented in the WebQuest.
ALL
ABOARD WEBQUEST