Slavery to Civil Rights
The eight
sections can be used as a complete scheme, or as stand alone units to
support your own lessons. They engage students in a variety of learning
activities, based around content that ranges from the North Atlantic
Slave Trade to the Civil Rights Movement. They contain a variety of
tasks that can engage students across the whole ability range and are
suitable for use in both Years Eight and Nine.
The
North Atlantic Slave Trade involves research to complete
a Power Point template.
Slaves’ Stories
engages students in empathetic writing about the experience of enslavement
and the Middle Passage.
The abolition of slavery
in the British Empire places students in the role of researchers, they
complete a “Fact File”, by using a template containing hyperlinks,
on each of the key abolitionists.
The Slave Experience can
be approached at a variety of levels, students investigate and write
about plantation life.
The Underground Railroad enables
students to learn about the Underground Railroad in a fun and engaging
manner, whilst at the same time producing a record of their learning.
American Memories of Slavery
gives students the experience of using oral history archive material
to research the past and thus gain a better understanding of what it
was like to be slave.
The assassination of President Lincoln
sees students using internet resources to complete a news report about
the assassination of President Lincoln, whilst at the same time developing
their skills of considering events from contemporary perspectives and
developing their DTP skills .
Sharecropping to Civil Rights
engages students in researching the discrimination and segregation that
led to the development of the Civil Rights Movement.
Students develop an improved understanding of chronology and rates of
historical change.
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By
Owen Scott