Online activities using the Plantation Letters collection (12)

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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	49	Nov 25 Reply by 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... Started by John Lee	61	Nov 6 Reply by 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	23	Nov 2 Reply by Alice Harmon
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	47	Sep 21 Reply by Kevin Cave
19th Century Newscast In this online activity, students will use the Cameron Plantation Letters from www.plantationletters.com. Using the same Goals and Object... Started by Adam Faulkner	1	Dec. 18, 2008 Reply by John Lee
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	1	Dec. 18, 2008 Reply by John Lee
Wiki wiki what? In this activity student groups will be assigned different Cameron Family plantations to research. Using the wiki application on Blackboa... Started by Ben McDonald	1	Dec. 18, 2008 Reply by John Lee
Treatment of Sickness In this activity students will read several letters that discuss disease that has afflicted the Cameron family and their slaves. Students... Started by Allen McNeill	0	Nov. 4, 2008
Visual Presentation of Life during Reconstruction This activity is to compare and contrast the differences between the views of the three interviews of Doc Edwards, Cy Hart, and Abner Jor... Started by Nick Miller	0	Nov. 3, 2008
Answering Historical Questions in Narrative Letters The Cameron Letters offer students the opportunity to read the thoughts of people who lived and worked on plantations in the 1800s. After... Started by Rebecca Gwynne	0	Nov. 3, 2008