language arts
Enduring understandings
1) Perception can alter views on historical facts.
2) Historical accuracy is necessary when creating a historical fiction.
2) Historical accuracy is necessary when creating a historical fiction.
essential Questions
1) Why is setting and imagery important when creating a historical fiction short story?
2) How does perspective change the interpretation of historical events?
2) How does perspective change the interpretation of historical events?
Lessons/Activities
Day One: Before the Field Trip
Do Now: (Short Journal) How do different perspectives change the way we see or interpret various stories, historical events, and current events? Explain.
Lesson:
Divide the class into two groups. Give one group the letter from Lizzie and the other group the letter from Slave Owners. Students can work individually or in pairs to read and annotate the manuscript.
Have students debate, based on the letters only, is slavery something that should be abolished? After the students debate the letters, ask them to bring in their own beliefs/opinions about slavery. Give the students the other letter that they did not read for the debate and have them read and annotate it.
For the end of class have students at the bottom of the short journal that they did at the beginning of class answer the following questions: How did reading the letters so the different perceptions of slavery? Are their perceptions justified? How did the historical time influence the writer's beliefs? Collect.
Day Two: After the Field Trip
Do Now: (Short Journal) Describe what you saw and how you liked the field trip.
Lesson: Based on the information you received on the field trip, write a letter to a friend, from any perspective you choose, from the Antebellum Era, about a day at Somerset Place.
Do Now: (Short Journal) How do different perspectives change the way we see or interpret various stories, historical events, and current events? Explain.
Lesson:
Divide the class into two groups. Give one group the letter from Lizzie and the other group the letter from Slave Owners. Students can work individually or in pairs to read and annotate the manuscript.
Have students debate, based on the letters only, is slavery something that should be abolished? After the students debate the letters, ask them to bring in their own beliefs/opinions about slavery. Give the students the other letter that they did not read for the debate and have them read and annotate it.
For the end of class have students at the bottom of the short journal that they did at the beginning of class answer the following questions: How did reading the letters so the different perceptions of slavery? Are their perceptions justified? How did the historical time influence the writer's beliefs? Collect.
Day Two: After the Field Trip
Do Now: (Short Journal) Describe what you saw and how you liked the field trip.
Lesson: Based on the information you received on the field trip, write a letter to a friend, from any perspective you choose, from the Antebellum Era, about a day at Somerset Place.