Lesson Plan of Harriet Jacobs

Objective:

· Expand student’s knowledge about slavery

· Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature.

· Analyze a multiple interpretation of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each interprets the source text.

Materials: Writing Utensils, paper, laptop, Projector, Worksheets, Audio Speakers and student portfolios

Aim: How was plantation life for slaves?

Do Now: Has there ever been a time when you have been obligated to do something you did not want to do? Explain in 3-5 sentences.

Procedure:

· Students will walk into class and take a seat.

· Once the class is settled down the aim will be read to the class. Students will be copying the aim and do now with their utensil and pen/ pencil

· Teacher will ask students to answer the Do Now

· Do now will be shared out which should last about five minutes with three to five responses

· Teachers will then proceed to the Mini Lesson which will consist of PowerPoint slides on Plantation life and Harriet Jacobs as well as interact with students

· Students will be given their class activity and direction of how to complete a worksheet which will be assigned in groups which will be about twenty five minutes

· Students will share to the class approximately seven minutes before the termination of class and then Homework will be assigned to them which will be due the next day

Mini Lesson: Plantation Life and Harriet Jacobs

Plantation Life

a) What were the jobs slaves were assigned

b) How were the slaves treated

Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a Linda Brent)

i. Early life

ii. Escaping slavery

Class Activity: The teacher will create group of 4, by doing a head count. Students will be given a packet and lyric. There will be 2 lyrics and each group will have a different one, then students will complete the back and share out.

Share out: Students please share out the do now question and the class activity.

Homework: Pretend you are a slave working on a plantation describing your day and how you feel about doing the work. (a well developed paragraph)

For Natalie: one of the teacher will be around her and explain thing as many times as she needs its, Homework explain to her , give her examples of plantation life , slaves life , explain in details . Read to her the assignments and how to do them.

Plantation Life

• Slaves worked for long hours endlessly clearing the land, plowing fields, raising livestock, making buildings, and planting crops to transform the landscapes into luxurious plantations.
• Labor was intense and if you didn't work fast or the master so you resting you would get whipped or punish .
• Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month for food.
• Slaves lived in quarter
• Women would most of the time work in the house cleaning , washing ,mending.female slaves and young children usually served as domestics, tending to the master's family as cooks, servants, and housemaids, and were often starved, whipped, and even raped.
• slaves slept on the floor with just a coarse blanket
• Man would usually attend the fields, garden and Horses
• Music and religion is what gave slaves a reason to leave it gave them strength
• slaves believed in christianity
• slaves live in bad condition but they had gone through so much that their bodiessnd minds were strong .

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm

Abolition Movement

• both white and black abolished fought against slavery during the 9th century .

Abolitionist

• Benjamin
• John Brown
• Harriet Tubman
• William Lloyd Garrison

This were some of many abolitionist .

• These people tried in many ways to give slaves right and freedom . Many gave their lives like John brown , others wrote songs , spread the word , helped slaves escaped through the Undergrounds railroads to the North.

• abolitionist movement was started by strong minded people , people that cared about others and worked very hard to bring to peoples attention to slavery and the fact that slavery was bad.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html

Fugitive Slave Act/Law

• this law was pass to protect the properties of the Masters

• This law was passed on 1793
• if the North say any slaves they had to be "good citizen" and report it to the south , or hold it for the owner.
• heavy penalties were imposed upon anyone who helps a slaves
• The law stated that in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on nothing more than his sworn testimony of ownership. A suspected black slave could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0819828.html

Slavery and settings in North America

• Free Blacks owned slaves so not only White people owned slaves as many think.
• slavery had existed in africa for many years but the difference was that slaves were able to own slaves unlike the slaves in america.
• Slaves were actually brought to North America the rest were sent to the Caribbeans or South America.
• Many of the salves were Baptized Christians or they were familiar with Christianity itself.
• Salves would use various tactics to get out of work with their masters such as faking illnesses or injuries.
• Spaniards use the indian in north america as slaves too.
• Slavery in egypt had going on for lon time too.
• slavery has always been around but there were many different type of slavery , but at the end slavery is wrong and cruel in any way you put it .
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Slave Trade

• weapons , goods
• capture slaves
• Most slaves were from africa
• Hundreds of slaves were put in a ship with barely any space to breath
• Slaves were sold like goods in a market
• violence was all over the ship
• slaves were punished if they didn't want to eat - they were hanged upside down
• some slaves were thrown of the ship with cannon balls chained to their feet.
• many slaves died because of hunger and cruelty , many were murdered to set an example to other slave.- so slaves wouldn't rebel

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h603.html

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100113075057AAokCrm

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs

• Harriet Ann Jacobs was born in 1813.
• she was born in North Carolina , Edenton.
• Her mother- Delilah was the daugther of a slave named Molly horniblow.
  Her father- was the son of a white man - named Henry Jacob.
• Her mother died when she was six years old; after this she found out that she was a slave, she moved with her grandmother Molly
• Her grandmother's mistress taught harriet how to read and sew, she learn about christianity through the mistress and her grandmother.
• Harriet Jacobs wrote herself Incidents in the life of a slave girl which was published in 1861 under another name.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jaco-har.htm