Vocabulary Activities

1) Have students make a crossword puzzle using their vocabulary words.

2) Have students use their words in a word search.

3) Have students make flashcards with their vocabulary words and study in partners.

4) Have students create sentences using their vocabulary words.

5) Have students classify words as nouns, adjectives, verbs, ect.

Lesson Plans-

Section 1, Chapters 1 and 2

        Have students read chapters 1 and 2                                             

        Have students list what they learned about the Quaker belief while reading chapters 1 and 2.

         Display their responses on a large piece of paper in the  classroom,

          Later in the story have students relate the Quaker beliefs to the plot of the story.

Section 2, Chapters 3 and 4

           Have students write in journal on a piece of paper about the following topic: "I once took a risk to help some one...."

            Share their responses with the class and then discuss.

Section 3, Chapters 5 and 6

            Write civil disobedience on the board.

            Ask students what they think it means

            Explain that civil disobedience is the deliberate and public refusal to obey the law and is usually unviolent.

            Tell students Quaker and other abolitionists practiced it when they helped slaves escape.

        Examples:

                Susan B. Anthony protesting lack of women's rights by illegal voting in an election.

                Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat

                Opponents of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War refusing to register for draft.

                    Divide students into groups and have them discuss why many people would say that it is never right to break a law.

                    Get back into a class and discuss their answers.

Section 4, Chapters 7 and 8

                Divide the class into groups and have them research the following battles:

                        First Battle of Bull Run (on our website)

                        Shiloh

                        Second Battle of Bull Run (on our website)

                        Antietam

                        Fredericksburg (on our website)

                        Gettysburg (on our website)

                Have them present their project to the class. (could be long term project)

Section 5, Chapters 9 and 10

                Divide the students into partners

                Tell students that Truth is going to be interviewed for the paper bout her journey to save Robert.

                   Have the pair list questions that tell Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why?, and How?.

                    Have students answer questions as if they were Truth and share them with the class.

Section 6, Chapters 11 and 12

                    Have the class each chose an abolitionists to research and write a paper about. 

             Examples: Susan B. Anthony, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lucretia Mott 

                     Have them share with the class.

Section 7, Chapters 13 and 14

                     Divide class into 6 groups.

                      Assign each group a character trait. (e.g. bravery, honesty, ingenuity, trustworthy, teamwork, determination)

                        Have group decorate paper with examples of the characteristic in story.

                        Display the pieces of paper.

Vocabulary:

Section 1

stocky        knead        sanatorium        stifle        lanky        bodice frank          eavesdrop  anticipate        scuttle       dapple     meditating  curse          stoke         mused              doff          flaxen      ruddy  fugitive       remnant

Section 2

astounded        levelly        gravely        secede        prime        towhead          retrieve      vile            somberly      abolitionists  compose          strained       glazier

Section 3

sorrel                spiteful            locket            militia        fodder        conscription       whitewash       cultivated      grim           rout

Section 4

bleary        trussed        cleft            cavern        crude        deserter    astride        gelding        prosperous   clapboard   veranda     corncrib  portly          gallant        staunch        telltale        buffeted    scoffed  dishearting   sultry 

Section 5

nimble        engrossed        privy        hearse        confinement        seizure        crinoline         barrage    contempt     scaffolding        sect            vendor            brackish   gilded          flounce    silhouette

Section 6

baritone        sallow        auditorium        malaria        sentry        depot courtesy        fitful          faltered             basin

Section 7

chafe        confiscated        plundered        courier        urgent        midwife    clamor               point-blank        buoyant