8th Grade Slavery Perspectives Project
Assignment: Students will research and create an historical perspective or
viewpoint representing an historical person, place, or event that occurred
during the period of American slavery.
Due Dates: Printed Worksheet due Monday Feb. 10
Glogster poster completed and web link emailed to Mr. Gargiulo no later
than 10:00 PM on Sunday, Feb. 16th
American Slavery Primary Resource Materials:
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/black-history-topical.html#slavery
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/slavery/memory.html
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/africanamericanlit2e/ch/B_Slavery/papert
opic.aspx
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/primary-source.html
http://libguides.union.edu/content.php?pid=282476&sid=2325773
http://www.floridamemory.com/
Part IV: Create your Glogster infographic using the information you found in the
terminology and notes section of your research worksheet.
Glogster Requirements:
Each student will set up a free education account at http://edu.glogster.com and use
time in the library to work on their glogs with Mrs. Johnston
The teacher code you need is 6DUEEG, select I’m A Student
Each completed glog will include the following…
1. A title with your topic, your name, and your class period at the top left
2. 4 important text boxes that discuss either a term relevant to your topic or
interesting information you located (1 paragraph in each text box). One of the
text boxes should summarize your topic.
3. A 3-paragraph diary entry that describes the life, feelings, viewpoints and events
happening in the life of your diarist. Diary entry could also describe the
decisions and (perhaps) conflicting opinions of your diarist with their family
and/or society. Remember, you are an eyewitness to history, so give an accurate
account with a personal perspective! Be sure to give your diarist an historically
accurate name, age, description. Be creative!
4. 4 historical images (includes drawings, political cartoons, newspapers, runaway
slave ads, bulletins, maps, etc)
5. A list of your resource citations saved in Word and attached as a data
document.
6. Bonus points: A video which depicts an accurate summary of the event or
interview with a credible source (such as an historian).
You can see a sample glog for this project here:
http://djohnsto.edu.glogster.com/slaveryperspectiveproject
American Slavery Perspectives Topics
1. Atlantic Slave Trade
2. The early colonies and slavery (1619-1776)
3. William Wilberforce
4. US & British slave trade acts
5. Freetown, Sierra Leone
6. Quakers and slavery
7. Abolitionist
8. William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
9. Slave rebellions and insurrections in south
10.Nat Turner
11.Slave codes and laws (Virginia, S.C. , etc)
12.Slave culture/life in the quarters
13.Life of freed slaves in the North
14.Religion and the slaves
15.Florida’s Black Seminoles
16.Runaway slaves and the various fugitive slave laws/acts
17.Sojourner Truth
18.Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin
19.Underground Railroad
20.Harriet Tubman
21.Phillis Wheatley
22.The life of the field slave vs. the house slave
23.Dred Scott
24.The U.S. Consitution and slavery (3/5s rule, amendments related to
slavery and emancipation)
25.The Supreme Court and slavery (Dred Scott v Sanford, Prigg v
Pennslyvania
26. Frederick Douglass