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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe the life of Harriet Tubman. They define opportunity cost. Students identify the opportunity cost of each of several choices made by Harriet Tubman. They are explained that Harriet Tubman was the first African...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Methods of Reform: The Lowell Mill Girls

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars define reform. They identify different reform methods. Students evaluate reform efforts inspired by the Lowell Mill girls. They see how group organization and advocacy would eventually lead to important scoical change.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Rice Cultivation in Georgetown County

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describes the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing rice in the antebellum South. Contains review questions.
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Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Life of Plantation Field Hands, 1857

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides this account of U.S. slavery that was written by a British writer who toured the American South in 1857. It makes interesting comparisons of house servants, field hands, and small farmers' slaves.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: Douglass Prism

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Frederick Douglass' description of slave overseer Mr. Gore and highlight catalog in blue, anadiplosis in red, and chiasmus in green.