WEEK ONE: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: A FREEDOM MOVEMENT Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8:30 9:15 8:309:15

5 8:309:15 8:309:15 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 9:1510:15 9:15-10:15 9:1510:15 9:1510:15 Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math Everyday Math 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 10:1511:15 Science Science Geography: Research Geography: Groups Students research the significant figures and calculate the amount types of create map of the of time it would take biomes/topography journey from a to make the journey people had to travel southern city to the north based on work through during their north and identify key from previous day escape to freedom locations and physical features 11:1512:00 11:1512:00 11:1512:00 11:1512:00 11:1512:00 Art Music Computers: P.E. Library Interactive Underground Railroad simulation 12:0012:45 12:0012:45 12:0012:45 12:0012:45 12:0012:45: Brainstorming: Vocabulary: Students Students find evidence Read Aloud: Follow Students create Concept map on match vocabulary to about important UR the Drinking Gourd illustrations to freedom: Read aloud significant actors of figures to identify represent coded lyrics of Yertle the Turtle UR their individual roles 12:451:30 12:451:30 12:451:30 12:451:30 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess Lunch/Recess Lunch/Recess Lunch/Recess Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 1:302:15 1:302:15 1:302:15 1:302:15 Writers Workshop: Station Rotation: Students post their The significance of the Code creation: Persuasive Essay Students read stories evidence cards with North Star, and its Students create their writing lesson using about the experiences supporting relative position to own messages boxes and bullets of individuals in the information on Earth UR classroom graphic

2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Journal Entry from a seed moment in the life of a slave 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Students collaborate to form three reasons why slavery should have been abolished 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

organizer and share their evidence in small groups 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Storybook Writing

2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Storybook writing

2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Storybook writing

2:55-3:09 Pack up/dismissal WEEK TWO Wednesday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:15-10:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Geography/Science: Students explore the different ways runaway slaves utilized cardinal direction 11:1512:00 Computers: Interactive Underground Railroad simulation (contd) 12:0012:45

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Monday 8:30 9:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Science

Tuesday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Science

Thursday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Students will write a new bill in lieu of the Fugitive Slave Act

Friday 8:309:15 Morning Workbooks 9:1510:15 Everyday Math 10:1511:15 Walking Trip to Liberty Bell and Mother Bethel Church

11:1512:00 Art Students construct a quilt patch representing the significance of 12:0012:45

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11:1512:00 P.E.

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Students study arguments for and against the use of quilts in windows during the UR

Students identify obstacles slaves confronted along the journey

12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Students will work in groups to analyze the Fugitive Slave Acts

12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Students will read differing perspectives on slavery based on peoples different life positions 2:153:00 Writers workshop: Persuasive essay/storybook writing 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

Students will use the articles to find important events during slavery. Students will post these dates to a classroom clothesline timeline 12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Compare/Contrast Yertle the Turtle with the UR; identify current instances of injustice 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Persuasive essay/storybook writing 2:55-3:09 Pack up/dismissal

Poetry readings on UR experiences. Students write their own poem

2:153:00 Writers workshop: Persuasive Essay to end the law 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Expert Groups on Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation, UNs Declaration of Human Rights, 2:153:00 Writers Workshop: Persuasive essay/storybook writing/Human Rights pamphlet 2:553:09 Pack up/dismissal

12:451:30 Lunch/Recess 1:302:15 Liberty Bell Reflection and Unitstudents write the significance of the Liberty Bell Storybook Reading Presentations to 3rd Grade

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