National Council for History Education
Reading the Past:
Literature and Literacy in History
Kansas City, MO
March 22-24, 2012men
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Building LiteracyHistory Through the Eyes of
Franklin and Douglass
Deborah L. JohnsAmerican History Grant
Freedom Project – Rockford, Illinois menu
Thinking chronologically
vrs. Thinking historically
Teaching History
Using Literature to
Help Build Historical
Thinking
Teaching History Using
AutobiographyConfession
MemoirAutobiography
My Tree of Life
Tree CookieProject
The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin“The life of a nobody who became a somebody”
“A poor boy who made it good.. And advised other to do the same" William F. Andrews University of Kansas
Our humble family early
embraced the Reformation. Our forefathers continued Protestants through the reign of Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of persecution on account of their zeal against popery.
Reading #1
The Reformation
17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History
Making Connections
A question was once,
somehow or other, started between Collins and me of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning, and of their ability for study
Reading #2
Women’s Rights
17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History
Making Connections
Reading #3
My brother had, in 1720 or ‘21, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America and was called The New England Courant……
Franklin the Printer
17th Century American History 18th Century American History 19th Century American History 20th Century American History 21st Century American History
Making Connections
Benjamin’s Reading
List Plutarch Parallel Lives 46-120 A.D. Daniel DeFoe Essay on Projects
1697 Robinson Crusoe Mol Flander Samuel Richardson – Pamela – or
Virtue
Rewarded Cotton Mather – Essays to Do Good The Spectator
James Greenwood – English Grammar John Locke – On Human Understanding Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole Logic or the Art of Thinking 1711 Xenophon – The Memorable Things of Socrates (trans. 1711) John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress 1678
The List (cont.)
It was as once deeply impressed
upon my mind , that if Mr. Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, a powerful impetus would be given to it, and a stunning blow at the same time inflicted on northern prejudice against a colored complexion. Wm. Lloyd Garrison
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass
I have no accurate knowledge of my age….
Reading #1
1. For what three reasons, according to
Frederick, would his master not want him to find out his age?
2.Why would Peter, Isaac, Rich, and Jake have been so highly respected by other slaves on the plantation?
Discussion Questions #1
Why Inquiry?Students identify and choose
Ex. English History /Literature Women’s Suffrage/ America and the World Evolution of Print Technology - Communication
Inquiry Projects
Colonel Lloyd kept three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms that belonged to him.
Reading #2
1. Why were slaves who
committed “high misdemeanors” sent to the slave auctions to be sold?
2.Do you think the name of this overseer was Mr. Severe? 3. Write a summary paragraph of
one of the two passages in this reading
Discussion Questions #2
Reading #3My feet have been so cracked with frost that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes.
Writing your
NarrativeWrite a narrative of your life using your “Tree of Life” organizer
National History
Standards
Culture and Cultural DiversityTime, Continuity, and ChangePeople, Places and Environments
English Language Arts
Standards History/Social Studies
Common Core Standards
Deborah L. Johns NBCT
Washington Academy Rockford, Illinois 61103
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