Curated OER
Ex-Slave Narratives and WPA Interviews
Learners analyze documents related to slave narratives and slave interviews. They complete a document analysis form to analyze the contnet and historiography of the documents. They write a paragraph detailing when and why the document...
Curated OER
EX-SLAVE NARRATIVES
Young scholars read narratives of ex-slaves and then in groups write and act in their plays.
Curated OER
Point of View of Former Slaves
Students examine what life was like for slaves from the point of view of ex-slaves. They use resources from the Federal Writers' Project which took place in the mid- 1930's. They look at the importance of religion, the different status...
PBS
Document This
Being a historian requires serious sleuthing. They examine primary source documents and look for evidence, for clues that reveal who wrote the document, when, and why. After watching two historians model the process, young history...