Day 2

The Underground Railroad Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read “Ridgeway,” “South Carolina,” and “Stevens.”

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

“Ridgeway”

This chapter gives a bit of background information about Ridgeway, the slave catcher. Ridgeway’s father is a blacksmith, and he wanted Ridgeway to find something he was passionate about to do as a career. Ridgeway had...

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