Unit 8: Slavery
Formative Assessment #1 - What is slavery?
This assignment compares modern slavery with two eras of historic slavery. After you have read and completed the handout below, watch the two videos linked (to the right and below) to learn more about modern (contemporary) slavery.
Compare and Contrast Historic and Modern Slavery Handout
A slave is:
• Forced to work – through mental or physical threat
• Owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse
• Physically constrained or has restrictions placed on their freedom of movement
This assignment compares modern slavery with two eras of historic slavery. After you have read and completed the handout below, watch the two videos linked (to the right and below) to learn more about modern (contemporary) slavery.
Compare and Contrast Historic and Modern Slavery Handout
A slave is:
• Forced to work – through mental or physical threat
• Owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse
• Physically constrained or has restrictions placed on their freedom of movement
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Formative Assessment #2 - The Slave Experience DBQ
A DBQ (Document Based Question) is a question that is answered in writing after the analysis of primary sources. In this activity students will explore primary sources in order to understand the experiences of enslaved Africans in Africa and on the Middle Passage. As you analyze the documents below record your ideas on the handout. Remember to answer the Document Based Question in a well-developed one paragraph reflection.
DBQ question prompt: "How does the lack of concern for slaves as humans with feelings influence their treatment during the slave trade?
Document Based Question - handout
Paragraph Template (this is not required, but some students find it helpful)
A DBQ (Document Based Question) is a question that is answered in writing after the analysis of primary sources. In this activity students will explore primary sources in order to understand the experiences of enslaved Africans in Africa and on the Middle Passage. As you analyze the documents below record your ideas on the handout. Remember to answer the Document Based Question in a well-developed one paragraph reflection.
DBQ question prompt: "How does the lack of concern for slaves as humans with feelings influence their treatment during the slave trade?
Document Based Question - handout
Paragraph Template (this is not required, but some students find it helpful)
Formative Assessment #3 - Economics of Slavery
Mapping History - Interactive website
Mapping History handout
Mapping History - Interactive website
Mapping History handout
Formative Assessment #4 - Covert and Overt Resistance
Part 1- Oppression and Violent Resistance
Slave Life in the US Reasons for Rebellion Reading (Reading)
Experiences of Slaves - Oppression handout (Use the reading above to complete. This also includes the Nat Turner art analysis)
Nat Turner's Rebellion Video
Part 2 - Underground Railroad
Create a KWL chart on a piece of notebook paper. Write down everything that you 'know' and 'wonder' concerning the Underground Railroad. Turn your paper over. For the 'learned' section of your KWL chart you will break up the back side of your paper into four squares. Click on the link below, and as you read through the 4 sections listed on the interactive website record in the four quadrants of your paper the general experience that people might have on the Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad Interactive Website
Part 3 - Covert Resistance
Slave Resistance - Go Down Moses Handout
Part 1- Oppression and Violent Resistance
Slave Life in the US Reasons for Rebellion Reading (Reading)
Experiences of Slaves - Oppression handout (Use the reading above to complete. This also includes the Nat Turner art analysis)
Nat Turner's Rebellion Video
Part 2 - Underground Railroad
Create a KWL chart on a piece of notebook paper. Write down everything that you 'know' and 'wonder' concerning the Underground Railroad. Turn your paper over. For the 'learned' section of your KWL chart you will break up the back side of your paper into four squares. Click on the link below, and as you read through the 4 sections listed on the interactive website record in the four quadrants of your paper the general experience that people might have on the Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad Interactive Website
Part 3 - Covert Resistance
Slave Resistance - Go Down Moses Handout
Summative Assessment Part 1 - Modern Slavery Project
Modern Slavery Project Directions and Rubric (period 1, 3, 5)
Citation Machine
Free the Slaves educational videos (period 4)
Summative Assessment Part 2 - Multiple Choice Test
Response to Slavery Test Review
Modern Slavery Project Directions and Rubric (period 1, 3, 5)
Citation Machine
Free the Slaves educational videos (period 4)
Summative Assessment Part 2 - Multiple Choice Test
Response to Slavery Test Review
Video conference recordings and video links.
2015-2016
Conference call presentation on sex trafficking in Alaska - May 5, 2016.
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Note: These files only include the first 40 minutes of the presentation. It stops as the presenter talks about specific examples of trafficking in Alaska. Also, it does not include the question and answer session at the very end.
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2014-2015
Video Conference with Romeo Dallaire, the commander of the United Nations Observer Mission in Uganda on the topic of child soldiers in Uganda- May 7, 2015
This video is a recording of the video conference that Mrs. Liljemark's 2014-2015 8th grade class participated in on May 7, 2015. Video Conferenced with Uganda on the topic of rehabilitation of former child soldiers.
