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8th grade Language Arts Class
Created by Jessica Hanley
Teaching Research to Children and Adolescents
June 17, 2009
Objective: Students will gather and use information from both print
and electronic resources focusing on African-American slaves in the
1800’s that secretly learned to read. Students will determine what
information is the most useful to their needs and use it to crate a mini-
poster focusing on one slave.
http://classroom.monticello.org/teachers/resources/profile/259/Slave-
Life-at-Monticello/
http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/36273418/Young-
FREDERICK-DOUGLASS
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/narrative_life_of_
frederick_douglass.html
Assessment:
LMS and classroom teacher will grade the posters and reflect on
collaboration.