Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Underground Railway Exploration

By clicking on the links below you will be taken to pages on a site dealing with the Underground Railroad.  Just visit the pages you are directed to, because we will be searching the rest of the site later in class.  When you finish these two tasks you will be able to spend some additional time on IXL math.

Today your task is to explore life on the plantation by clicking on the link below and reading about Fannie, a young slave girl.  You will be writing in your communication books about her life, so be sure to read it all carefully.  Think about what stands out as the most shocking.  What do you think the hardest part of her days was?
click here to read about life on the plantation

Click on this link and see if you can use the coded language of slaves to understand the secret message about the underground railroad that is supposed to be written in the letter.  Complete the letter with the proper code words.
click this for Coded Letter Activity

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