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This Uncle Tom's Cabin: Starting Out unit plan also includes:
- Student Version
- Progression of Selected Chapters
- Additional Resources
- Suggesting for Teaching with the Material in This Archive
- Lesson 1: America in the 1850s
- Lesson 2: Approaching UTC
- Lesson 3: Stowe's Characters
- Primary Source Questionnaire
- Advertisement for Runaway Slave (Tom)
- "Caution! Colored People of Boston!"
- Advertisement for Runaway Slave (Emily)
- PBS's Africans in America website
- Anti-Slavery Almanacs
- Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention
- Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July Speech
- Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848
- Stanton's Letter to the Women's Rights Convention
- Excerpts from Mrs. Lydia Sigourney's Letters to Mothers
- Politics in an Oyster House
- PBS's Huck Finn in Context: A Teaching Guide
- Character Log
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Electronic Edition)
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Prior knowledge is key when starting any novel unit, but it's essential before introducing Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Three lessons provide primary documents, historical discussions, and extended reading activities that keep learners knowledgeable and engaged throughout the novel unit.
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Instructional Ideas
- Project the runaway slave posters onto the board as class members walk in, and have them journal their reactions to the images
- Allow literature circles to choose their own assessment methods from the second lesson
Classroom Considerations
- Though the resource is designed to provide prior knowledge about the 1850s, learners should have some understanding and sensitivity about the nature of slavery
- The first unit of three, each of which has three parts; navigate the links at the top and side of the page for the rest of the lessons
- This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
Pros
- Includes a wealth of auxiliary materials and lessons
- Builds historical facts and research into a pre-study of Stowe's characters
- The questionnaire is an applicable resource for any primary source document
Cons
- None