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Teacher Activities
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Student Activities
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| -Ask the students to get into small groups of three or four for discussion. |
-Gather into small groups. |
| -Ask the students to reflect on the portion of the book that they heard and discuss why they believe Harriet Tubman was so important to the survival of the Underground Railroad and what they believe her personality to be. |
-Discuss in class using their discussion chips. Each student should lay one of their chips down after they have given their point of view. Students may recollect their chips after each one has talked.
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| -Require students to report out from their groups about what they believe Harriet Tubman was like and why she was important. |
-Choose one student to speak for group and answer teacher questions.
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| -Write the students ideas onto the board. |
-Copy these ideas onto a sheet of notebook paper and keep close-by for further use.
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| -Instruct the students about the importance of black spirituals during this time period and how songs were used to communicate emotions and ideas. Place the song lyrics about Harriet Tubman on the overhead and read them aloud to the students (or play the song). Ask the students to examine the statements that they wrote down on their notebook paper and look for supporting evidence for these statements in the song lyrics. Demonstrate this process to the students. (See attachment A-1.) |
-Write down statements from the song that they believe fit the character traits that they had picked for Harriet Tubman. |
| -Show the students how to make a character sketch from these statements by having the students help to make a sketch of another familiar figure. |
-Provide ideas about descriptive traits for the famous figure. |
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