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Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger Crossing Bok Chitto

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Are you finding it difficult to teach or discuss slavery and oppression as part of America’s history? This story discusses trust, resiliency, and the presence of Choctaw and enslaved African Americans along the Natchez Trace, as well as the role of the Mississippi River, in creating the history of the region.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 2 - HOPE

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This is the second set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. It focuses on the idea of HOPE under OPPRESSION. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Enslavement-Resistance-Escape/Emancipation. It is based on the two-cd set Freedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, available from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 North Peters Street, New Orleans, La, 70116. www.nps.gov/jazz

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 2 - MAROONED FOR FREEDOM

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson uses a song from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park cd Remembering 300: The Arrowhead Jazz Band, and a podcast from New Orleans Public Radio: More Than A Runaway: Maroons In Louisiana, https://www.wwno.org/post/more-runaway-maroons-louisiana . It concerns the history of free settlements established by escaped slaves in isolated areas of Louisiana, and the most famous leader of those settlements, San Malo, also called St. Malo or Juan Malo

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 1 - SAN MALÓ AND INTRODUCTION TO UNIT

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson is an introduction to the book Le Ker Creole. Students will learn about the language of Kréyol, and about Creole culture and music, with a focus on the folk hero Juan San Maló. They will hear a song in Kréyol about San Maló and examine the lyrics to become familiar with the historic figure upon which the folk hero is based.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LESSON 2 - REMEMBERING SAN MALÓ

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In the previous lesson students were introduced to the concept of Creolization, to the historical figure of San Maló as presented in the song, and to Creole/Zydeco music. In this lesson students will focus on gaining greater historical knowledge of Juan San Maló. This will be done through a deep reading of an adapted version of a thesis paper on San Maló by Erin Elizabeth Voisin.