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New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 5 - CODED SPIRITUALS, METAPHOR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS

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

This is the fifth set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. 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

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Three Affiliated Tribes History: Education and Spirituality

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discussion questions and activities for the web article exploring the history of the Hidatsa Mandan Arikara Nation post-1845. Discussion centers around the resiliency of the MHA Nation and how they are reestablishing their cultural identity.

Shenandoah National Park

The Spirit of the Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

Prince William Forest Park

Spies in the Park

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discover the hidden history of WWII-era spies that trained in Prince William Forest Park. A one to two hour ranger talk and activities paired with an optional quarter to one mile hike in the forest gives students the chance to learn about this secretive period of the park's history.

Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Slaves as Property

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will read a "Reward Flyer" advertising the escape of a Florida slave. This will spark learning about slavery, property, and the Underground Railroad.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger Charlotte Spies for Justice

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

Are you finding it difficult to teach or discuss the Civil War and slavery with early elementary students? This program discusses bravery and making difficult choices. A brief discussion of the battlefields, as well as general survival along the Natchez Trace is incorporated.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

Slatersville, Slave Cloth, and the Slater Fund

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

One member of the Slater family, John Fox Slater, became an outspoken abolitionist and gave a considerable amount of his fortune to a fund that paid for schools and the education of Black leaders. A historian in this series asks: “Why did he do it?” Consider this question and the interconnectedness of the economies in the North and the South as you complete the activities in this lesson plan.

Correspondents, Soldiers and Spies: Women in the U.S.-Mexican War

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society Lesson Plan #5 - Revitalizing the Spirit

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. To show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives. To tell how Franklin Roosevelt's economic recovery programs jumpstarted the American economy and left a legacy for future generations.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Family Matters: The Life of a Slave Family Pre-Visit Activity

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Family was central to Harriet Tubman's life. As she wrote, "I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free." What compelled Tubman to return for her loved ones on multiple trips to guide them to freedom?

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.

Catoctin Mountain Park

The Blacksmith in Society: Lesson 4 - The Price of Freedom Grades 6-8

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

To show students how slaves were utilized and marketed to meet the economic needs of the slave owner. To acquaint students with strategies slaves utilized to gain freedom, i.e., purchase of their time, purchase of family members or self, escape or manumission. To demonstrate the earning potential of a typical 19th century blacksmith. To introduce documentation, written by slaves, describing the working conditions and life-styles of slaves.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

Lesson 4 - ESCAPE

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

This is the fourth set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. In this unit students journal in the first person as if they are passing through the experience of Escape. 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

National Park of American Samoa

Samoan Art in the Tatau (Tattoo)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Samoa islands are a beautiful tropical paradise located in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands are rich in culture, history, legend, and known for its beautiful landscape and climate. One of the most legendary parts of Samoan culture is the tatau or tattoos represent the spiritual and cultural heritage of the islands.

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 3 - RESISTANCE

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

This is the third set of lessons in a multi lesson unit. 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 1 - JOURNALING WITH SONGS OF FREEDOM

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

This lesson plan is designed to accompany the two disc cd set FREEDOM IS COMING: SONGS OF FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The set may be obtained from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, www.nps.gov/jazz

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The Lost Cause: Slave Narratives in Western North Carolina (Grades 9-12) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

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

This is the 3rd of 3 lessons that help students learn about the nuances of romanticized myth and incomplete histories in western North Carolina (WNC). This lesson enables high school students to analyze the Lost Cause narrative that rose after the Civil War. Students will use primary and secondary sources to study the foundations of the Lost Cause revisionist history, from racism to regionalism. Students will develop analytical skills to study history that still divides the American people.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Salem, Slavery, and the Sacred Cod

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

New England has deep historic connections to the slave societies in the West Indies (Caribbean). This lesson explores primary sources that implicate Massachusetts merchant families in the Atlantic slave economy.