Culminating Projects-Objectives
To excite the students' love for theater, and to review the previous lesson about slavery, they will perform a Reader's Theater from the book entitled, Ellen Craft's Escape From Slavery 6. This will be one of the initial lessons in the unit and sets the tone for review.
Cultural Museum: Students will create a cultural museum. It will involve students creating a poster-board full of cultural items, inside a voting booth, depicting the stages taken to gain true citizenship for their cultures. Because this is an election year, the voting booth symbolizes the rights that African Americans were denied, and how all people need to be reminded to exercise that right to vote each year. Student will make cultural flags; organize family pictures and visuals, and other items to include in their cultural museum.
There will be on-going collections of items that will help visually tell their stories about citizenship journeys. They will use the Internet to download relevant items that connect to the theme.
The Brown-Bag Theatre: This theatre will need a stage created by students to hold town meetings for them to share and present their short plays, perform Reader's Theater, share short speeches about their cultural paths, as well as recite poetry and raps.
Play Writing: Students will write a play about how their journeys intersect, depicting ways to rectify how people react to racism, discrimination and unfair treatment toward African Americans. The students should now find that common ground to connect and interact with each other to become responsible citizens.
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