Publisher's Synopsis
The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The Underground Railroad Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.
Underground Railroad Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
The 20 documents in the Underground Railroad Primary Sources Packs are:
1. Photograph of abolitionist William Jackson and his family - their home was a station on the Underground Railroad in Newton, Massachusetts - 1846
2. Broadside offering a $200 reward for escaped slaves - 1847
3. Lithograph titled Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law depicts four black men ambushed in a cornfield by a posse of armed white men - 1850
4. Lithograph titled The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia - Brown was a slave who escaped by being mailed from Virginia to Philadelphia in a wooden crate - 1850
5. Poster advising African Americans in Boston to watch out for policemen acting as slave catchers - 1851
6. Title page of anti-slavery nov
