Plantation Letters

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John Lee

Draft posting of episodes from the Plantation Letters

Post here drafts of essays on historical episodes emerging from inquiries using the Plantation Letters. These essays will be submitted to...

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John Lee

Working with documents - Summarizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity I)

This is the first of three activities that use the SCIM-C method to explore resources on the Plantation Letters website. Activity I The...

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61 Nov 6
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John Lee

Mentions of slavery in plantation letters

Comment below with extracted text where slavery, slave life, or details about the slave system are discussed. For each letters, indicate ...

Started by John Lee in Online activities using the Plantation Letters collection

23 Nov 2
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John Lee

Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)

This is the third of three activities that use the SCIM-C method to explore resources on the Plantation Letters website. Activity III Y...

Started by John Lee in Online activities using the Plantation Letters collection

47 Sep 21
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John Lee

Working with documents - Contextualizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity II)

This is the second of three activities that use the SCIM-C method to explore resources on the Plantation Letters website Activity II In...

Started by John Lee in Online activities using the Plantation Letters collection

48 Sep 21
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Adam Faulkner

19th Century Newscast

In this online activity, students will use the Cameron Plantation Letters from www.plantationletters.com. Using the same Goals and Object...

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1 Dec. 18, 2008
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Kamii Harris

Plantation Newspaper

Skills Goals: 2.06 Create written, oral, musical, visual, and theatrical presentations of social studies information. 3.05 Interpret hist...

Started by Kamii Harris in Online activities using the Plantation Letters collection

1 Dec. 18, 2008
Reply by John Lee
Ben McDonald

Wiki wiki what?

In this activity student groups will be assigned different Cameron Family plantations to research. Using the wiki application on Blackboa...

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1 Dec. 18, 2008
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Ben McDonald

The Cameron Plantation

North Carolina 6-Point Lesson Plan Subject: 8th Grade SS Topic: Slavery in NC Teacher: Ben McDonald Date: TBD NC Standard Course of Stu...

Started by Ben McDonald in Lesson ideas and plans

1 Dec. 18, 2008
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Kamii Harris

Emancipation

Skills Goals: 1.03 Draw inferences. 4.01 Use hypothetical reasoning processes. 4.03 Recognize and analyze values upon which judgments are...

Started by Kamii Harris in Lesson ideas and plans

1 Dec. 18, 2008
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