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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
African Resources for the Classroom, BU
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African Studies Center
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Outreach Program
Handouts: a sampling (Others available at our Resource Library.)
1. Mutual Misperceptions: how Americans and Nigerians see each other.
2. African Literature in Your Classroom.
3. Let's Critique African Materials.
4. Boston-area African studies resources.
5. Teaching a ...
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America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses.
The Terrible Transformation: Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide
1450-1750
Revolution: Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide
1750-1805
Brotherly Love: Narrative | ...
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African-American Content
15-373 Black Literature in America
PlattevilleEnglishLaura Wendorff, Assistant Professor
106-100 Black Reality: Survey of African-American Society
MilwaukeeAfricologyJoyce F. Kirk
106-111 Introduction to African-American History to 1865
MilwaukeeAfricologyWinston Van Horne, Professor
106-300 Urban Violence
MilwaukeeAfricologyWinston Van Horne, Professor
106-322 Order and Disorder: The Quest for Social Justice
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Black Saga
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School systems, large and small, are making great strides in enriching their social studies curricula to reflect the histories of people who settled in this country. Most educators agree that social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ways that human beings view themselves in and over time. Students need to answer key social studies questions: What happened in the past? How am I connected to those in the past? How can the ...
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A Black Studies Self Study Program
Some Online Historical Overviews
An Overview of Black History
The African Americans: Search for Truth and Knowledge
A Black Perspective of American History
The following books are suggested reading. At least two in each phase should be read and those in bold are considered classic reading material.
AFRICAN HISTORY
The first phase should be devoted to reading about the history of Africa. It should begin with the evolution of ma ...
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The History of African American Cooking
African Heritage (300-1619)
Back in this era, most African men were farmers, cattle raisers and fishermen. Planting, sowing and harvesting crops were considered women's work. Cooking was one of the most important skills a young girl needed to learn. One traditional dish called fufu was made of pounded yams. Fufu was served with soup, stew, roasted meat and different sauces. During this time in history, cooking was done over open pits. Africans were v ...
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The Two Nations of Black America
Today, America has the largest black middle class in its history, yet half of all black children are born into poverty. Have the wal ...
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Part 2: 1750-1805
Part 3: 1791-1831
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Harriet Tubman
c.1820 - 1913
Resource Bank Contents
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journey ...
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Introduction
Imagine what it would be like to be captured and enslaved.
How were you captured?
How were you torn from your tribe and family?
What horrors would you experience as you crossed the Middle Passage aboard your slave ship?
What thoughts were going through your mind while being sold at the slave auction?
What happened to your family?
How do your new owners treat you?
What are your working conditions on the plantation?
If you resist your treatment, how would ...
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K-12 African Studies
K-12 Teachers Workshop, 10-11 November 1999
African Curriculum Materials
African Dance in the Diaspora
African Resources for the Classroom, BU
African Science in School Curriculum
African Social Studies Program
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A Multimedia Teaching Case
Project Cape Town is a multimedia teaching case designed to encourage reflective practice in teachers. The case draws its material from three schools that were among the first to become integrated in South Africa. The events were filmed in November 1993 immediately before the approval of the constitution that governed elections which brought Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress into parliamentary control.
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A 2 hour Webquest for 5th Grade Social Science/History Classes
designed by Wendy F. Brenstuhl
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Introduction
Before the Civil War ever began, the North and South were divided in their ways of thinking. The customs, lifestyles and especially their differing attitude toward slavery, pulled them apart. The South needed slaves to work the fields where the North was more industrialized and didn't need free labor. Slaves were a ...
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Using Coded Messages
An Underground Railroad Activity
Classroom
Using actual code words once used in the Underground Railroad, students will create a coded song or nursery rhyme using a familiar song’s tune.
Materials:
Copies of original nursery rhymes and song books
Paper and pencil
List of code words
Example:
Three Large Bundles
(using tune of Three Blind Mice)
Three large bundles, three large bundles,
See how they move! See how they move!
They all float down the river y’all
To the house that has the big stone wall
Did you ever see such a wonderful haul
As three large bundles?
Some coded words and phrases from the Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad: Conductors and Travelers
Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion
Introduction:
Welcome to the 1850's in America. You will learn about the important players on the Underground Railroad--the travelers and the conductors.
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Choose either travelers OR conductors. You will work with a partner to research and take guided notes. At the end of your research, you and your partner will use your guided notes to complete one ...
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A WebQuest for Eighth Grade (The Underground Railroad)
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What would life have been like for slaves? To avoid this harsh treatment, what alternatives would you try? The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but a secret escape route for fugitive slaves to f ...
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