2nd+Grade+Underground+Railroad

[|Black History Month]- the [|Underground Railroad.]

Students read Follow the [|Drinking Gourd]in class. Additional titles used are **An Apple for Harriet Tubman**, **Moses: When Harriet Tubman lead her people to Freedom**, **Almost to Freedom**, **Under the Quilt of Night**, **Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky**....

In the library we take the trip on the Underground Railroad explaining the illusions in the experience. Why was Harriet Tubman called Moses? Students must hear the story of the Pharaoh, the Jews and the trip through the wilderness to the land of Milk and Honey...Using the Spiritual Go down Moses and Oh, Freedom.

The discussion allows students to think about what freedom means --- what slavery means by examining Lincoln's quote -- "Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of a man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself." A. Lincoln

Following the group sharing and learning experience students are free to take the trip choosing different outcomes on the [|Underground Railroad.]... This website allows teachers to deepen the experiences in their classrooms afterward....exploring geographic, vocabulary, heros of the underground railroad.

Vocabulary -
 * independence || bondage || captivity || freedom || liberty || common labor ||
 * slavery || abolitionist || negro spiritual || jubilee singers || Civil War || conductor ||
 * imprisonment || release || discharge || confinement || servitude || set free ||

Video Clips @ http://www.history.com/search?search-field=underground+railroad&x=0&y=0

Readig Rainbow at Learn 360.com

\   we never hear of a man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” — Abraham Lincoln Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of a man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” — Abraham Lincoln Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of a man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” — Abraham Lincoln