Monday: What did escaping mean?

1. Look at and read: Enslaver’s Ad

http://www.academia.edu/1955519/Missing_Dolly_Mourning_Slavery_The_Slave_Notice_as_Keepsake

1. Write: What do you think about when you look at and read the notice for Dolly? What do you think happened when/if she was caught? How do you feel reading/looking at this?

Tuesday: Why did people risk their lives to escape?

1. Watch: Reading Rainbow (Season 10: Episode 6 Follow the Drinking Gourd)

Purchase at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01M3MQ243/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s10

OR

Find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFR-t_RIunc

2. Write: What does this mean to you? What do the experiences of enslaved people inspire in you? How do their examples impact the way you think about yourself?

3. Look through auction block sites to see how the US has covered and tried to ignore the spaces where people were bought and sold by white enslavers: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/12/magazine/1619-project-slave-auction-sites.html

Wednesday: Why did people risk their lives to escape cont.?

1. Look through: https://peoplenotproperty.hudsonvalley.org/choosing-resistance.php

2. Read: Henry Box Brown

3. Record: A Book summary like in the Reading Rainbow episode from Tuesday

Thursday: What kinds of skills and intellect did enslaved people use to free themselves?

1. Look through stories of enslaved people trying to free themselves: https://peoplenotproperty.hudsonvalley.org/running-away.php

2. Write or Record: What story stood out to you the most and why? What attribute did you see in the stories that you could learn from or see as an example for your life?

Friday: Escaping

1. Watch: https://hudsonvalley.org/article/runaway-movie/

2. Discuss: What did you learn about the journey and the risks of trying to free yourself? What do you admire? What do you worry about or fear while watching this film?

Monday: Slave Revolts

1. Watch: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/andry-s-rebellion-1811/

2. Write: How did revolts happen and why? Why are they significant to US history?

3. Watch: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/largest-slave-revolt-in-u-s-history-lives-on-in-reenactment

4. Write: Why are people trying to remember Andry's Rebellion?

Tuesday: Underground Railroad

1. Watch: Video about Williams Still http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/underground-railroad/home/

2. Call: A grandparent or family member who is older than your parent and tell them what you learned about William Still. Share with them about the book you looked at that had so many stories of people who had escaped from White American enslavers.

Wednesday: Underground Railroad cont.

1. Play: Mission U.S. https://www.mission-us.org/

2. Read: https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/texts/jd-green

Thursday: Becoming Free and Helping Others

1. Watch: https://www.ted.com/talk/janell_hobson_the_breathtaking_courage_of_harriet_tubman#t-53714

Friday: Becoming Free and Helping Others

1. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdno2YLm4Ms

2. Write: What are five words to describe Harriet Tubman and what do those five words inspire in you about yourself?

Monday: Institutions and Systems did not help

1. Discuss: What were enslaved people escaping from? Who were they escaping from?

2. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qtz5WPd86o

3. Discuss: Why couldn't they go to the authorities or leaders where they lived?

Tuesday: Creating Communities

1. Study: http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/638

2. Write: What do you see looking at this picture? How are they a community?

Wednesday and Thursday: Education and Intelligence

1. Watch: https://www.ted.com/talks/daina_ramey_berry_the_electrifying_speeches_of_sojourner_truth?language=en

2. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapCxnaOLus

3. Listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkBdJOfH6o

4. Write: How did Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass recognize their worth and intelligence? What kinds of messages from white enslavers did they have to overcome and not believe? How can you learn from their example?

Friday: Nature

1. Read: Moses Grandy pp. 7-8

https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grandy/grandy.html

2. Write: How have Indigenous and Black communities and land (the natural world) supported one another in very difficult circumstances? How does land provide rest and support, resistance and escape?