Classroom Activities
I would like each student to create a small interactive journal for this unit. The students will utilize this journal to house their paired reading assignments, and journal entries from the information learned throughout the course and from their field trips. Their final assignment, titled Reading in the Dark, will consist of a poster board or tri-fold project, where each student will draw or construct a huge flashlight, candle or barn fire. After choosing their method of light to draw or construct, the students will have to label 5 rays of light or flames from their method of light. The labeling will include 5 skills which enslaved individuals used during slavery in order to gain literacy. At the bottom of the presentation, the student will pick one person from the reading we have talked about and discuss how they were able to read. Also, each student at the bottom of their presentation will draw or create a school house. In this section titled Light in the Midst of Darkness, students will draw or construct a schoolhouse and discuss the establishment of Armstrong High School along with the important aspects of Reconstruction and at least one other freemen school here in the state. Overall the students will receive two grades for this unit. One quiz grade will be given for a completed activity journal, and one test grade will be given for their completed poster board and or trifold presentation. It will be my goal to not only engage students with this academic information but to spark a sense of drive and want to continue their education.
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