EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE
GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
A CHANGING AMERICA –
GROUP ONE (ABOLITION - PEOPLE)
Requirements for presentation: (See rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain the person’s involvement in the abolition movement
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: Introduce the people involved in the abolition movement showing their
background and their role in the movement.
1. William Lloyd Garrison - .
Joined the Anti-Slavery Society
Established American Colonization Society to emigrate slaves to Africa
Established newspaper The Liberator and ran 1820 issues from 1831 to 1865.
2. Grimke sisters –
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Lived on a plantation in South Carolina
At age five one of them witnessed the whipping of a slave
Became Quakers
Supported the women’s rights movement
Powerful writers and speakers (held a lecture series)
Attempted to vote when the 15th amendment was passed
3. Frederick Douglas –
Born a slave and escaped by impersonating a sailor
Owners began to teach him to read and then he continued on his own
Anti-Slavery Society member
Paper called the North Star
Advised President Lincoln to pass the Civil War Amendments
Attended the Seneca Falls Convention in support of women’s rights
4. Sojourner Truth –
Slave for a Dutch family and escaped
Became a traveling preacher
Famous speech “Ain’t I A Woman?”
Supported the women’s rights movement
5. Benjamin Lundy –
Anti-Slavery Society member
Lectured against slavery
Worked with William Lloyd Garrison
Quaker
.
GROUP TWO (ABOLITION – UNDERGROUND RAILROAD)
Requirements for presentation: (See rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain each part of the Underground Railroad movement
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: Show the process the slaves followed from plantation to Canada and
then the process from plantation to being caught and returned to the plantation.
1. The Underground Railroad was a network that carried runaway slaves to Canada.
There were over 100,000 slaves that used this network. The slaves would start on
the plantations with some escaping themselves and others having people come to
escort them to the network. Each place the slaves would stay were called stations or
depots. The people that helped them at these stations were called station masters or
conductors.
2. Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave that became a leader in the abolition movement.
She actively went to plantations to help slaves to the network. During the Civil War
She served as both a nurse and as a spy for the federal forces in South Carolina.
3. The Fugitive Slave Law (Act) of 1850 –
The law mandated the return of runaway slaves.
GROUP THREE (REFORM – EDUCATION)
Requirements for presentation: (see rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain each part of the Underground Railroad movement
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: Show the establishment of the three areas of education and what they
offered the public.
1. Horace Mann
Established public education in Massachusetts
Father of American public education
Created the single school system in Massachusetts that spread across America
“Education then, beyond all the devices of human origin, is the great equalizer.”
2. Thomas Howe
Established school for blind people
He developed Boston Line Type that was raised letter printing
Barbier originally developed a code for sending message without light that was raised
dots
Braille was a Frenchman who was blind and modified the use of this code to develop
braille
3. Thomas Gallaudet
Established school for deaf people in Connecticut
He traveled to Europe and brought back a sign language instructor
GROUP FOUR (REFORM – WOMEN’S RIGHTS)
Requirements for presentation: (see rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain each part of the women’s rights movement
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: Your presentation should show the individuals involved in the
movement, the reasons for the movement, a definition for those that worked in the
movement, and the convention being held with specific reference to the Declaration
of Sentiments.
:
1. Name of suffragettes
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
2. Abigail Adams as part of the women’s rights movement, but much
earlier in history (John Adams and Declaration of Independence)
3. Sojourner Truth as a part of the women’s rights movement AND
the abolition movement
4. The rights they wanted: married women own property, education, and voting
5. A definition of suffrage and suffragettes.
6. The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments
.
GROUP FIVE (REFORM – TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT)
Requirements for presentation: (see rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain each part of the temperance movement
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: The creation of a group of women protesting men drinking in a saloon.
1. Doors to a saloon.
2. Women outside of saloon singing and handing out pamphlets
3. Large pamphlet showing what happens as a result of the men’s drinking.
GROUP SIX (LITERATURE)
Requirements for presentation: (see rubric for details)
Name cards for each individual
Props that explain the books and the topics in the books
Prompt cards for each speaker
Representation: A look at various authors and their writings and the fact that these
writings now have an emphasis on America.
1. The authors, titles, and subject matter of the books.
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fennimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere’ Ride
Song of Hiawatha
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scarlett Letter
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Civil Disobedience
2. A map of the United States showing the subject matter of the books and how that is
concentrating on life in America and individualism in America.