Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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B2.1 express personal responses and make connections to characters, themes, and issues presented in their own and others’ drama works use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;

Anecdotal notes will be taken to indicate who is a respectful listener, and on the depth of student comments, questions and peer discussions. I will use this form of assessment to get an idea of what students think and how they see the world, and so that that I can start to lay the foundation of what this unit needs to touch on Self-Regulation – students can monitor, assess and control their own behaviours to suit the needs of the class and activities

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A BIG box – minds on – to encourage students to think about the ways people were willing to go to obtain freedom Product– Students will add a card to the Freedom Wall with a comment or word of their choice. This activity is meant to collect thoughts into one place, and get students to reflect on various aspects of social justice LEARNING SKILLS AND WORK HABITS: Responsibility, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self-Regulation Fradin, Dennis Brindell. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves. Clarion, 2000. ISBN-13: 9780395970171

Strand(s): Oral Communication & Reading, Creating and Presenting & Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing, & Understanding Context

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I may have a second set of volunteers come up and pretend to be Henry’s children or wife if time allows view and compare their ideas and add to their perspectives through a gallery walk of a Freedom Wall demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behaviour by adapting active listening strategies to suit a range of situations, including work in groups