Pauline S. Johnson
I am currently the Director of a Teaching American History Grant for Buncombe County Schools, Asheville City Schools, and Madison County Schools. I have taught history and English in the seventh and eighth grades for over twenty-six years at Reynolds Middle School in Asheville, North Carolina. I am currently doing adjunct work for Mars Hill College and Western Carolina University. I have a Masters Degree from Western Carolina University and am Nationally Board Certified in Early Adolescence/Social Studies-History. I am certified to teach K–12 and I also have Academically-Intellectually Gifted certification.
Resources created by Pauline S. Johnson
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- "Land and Work in Carolina" teaching strategies
- These suggested teaching strategies, designed to accompany the article “Land and Work in Carolina,” will enable students to understand the concept of feudalism and its impact on the systems of labor and land ownership in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Letter activity one
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 2
- The following excerpt is from a letter from Mr. Sherlock Bronson, a lawyer and president of Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation, to the Honorable Graham Braden, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives. It was written March 16, 1939. The...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Letter activity three
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 4
- On April 13, 1939, Mr. Sherlock Bronson wrote a "General statement of Sherlock Bronson of the circumstances and conditions under which the survey of industrial conditions in the tobacco bag stringing area was made, and certain conclusions therefrom" and sent...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Letter activity two
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 3
- Read the three short letters of March 31, 1939, April 1, 1939, and April 7, 1939. Who wrote each of...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Lords Proprietors graphic organizer
- This activity will support students' comprehension as they read the article "The Lords Proprietors."
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "Magic Eye" discussion questions
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity two, page 3
- Each of you has looked carefully at one of the photographs. You have talked about your photograph with the others in your group. Now, think about all of the different photographs. What can they tell us about what it was like to live in that section of North...
- Format: article
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Mountain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.4
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Mountains," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's mountains hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "Native Carolinians" additional activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.10
- These lessons from the UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology's Intrigue of the Past can be used as additional activities for the digital history textbook module "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Navigating the inlets and havens
- In this lesson plan, students read and analyze a primary source document written in the early 1700s that describes the inlets of the North Carolina coast. The students adopt the perspective of a contemporary ship's captain and discuss the importance of the information in the document.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The needs of animals
- In this lesson plan first grade students will examine photographs of 4-H club members with animals from North Carolina. They will make observations from the visual material to build an understanding of the needs of animals. They will begin to learn that these needs have remained the same in different times.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- North Carolina's physical and cultural geography
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3
- In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Piedmont cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.3
- This activity will assist students in understanding Piedmont cultures as they read the article "Peoples of the Piedmont."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "The present state of North Carolina": Making decisions
- In this lesson, students read an excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 book A New Voyage to Carolina and use a graphic organizer to decide whether they would have emigrated to Carolina as a result of reading Lawson's book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Primary source letters lesson plan
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 1
- This is one of a series of activities that will help educators use the Tobacco Bag Stringing project materials in their classrooms. Throughout the series students will learn about tobacco stringing, study primary source...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- A proprietary colony: Exploring the Charter of Carolina
- In this lesson for grade 8, students will examine the 1663 Charter of Carolina and complete a graphic organizer exploring the elements of the Charter. Students will then write a letter to the king of England from the perspective of one of the Lords Proprietors.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Provisions for Carolina: Comparing lists
- In this lesson, students will compare and contrast two historical documents: A list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Virginia in 1622, and a similar list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Carolina in 1709. Students will infer what has changed and what has stayed the same between the publication of these two documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading Amadas and Barlowe
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will read about Amadas and Barlowe's 1584 voyage to the Outer Banks, and will practice thinking critically and analyzing primary source documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina" and encourage them to think critically about the text.
- Format: worksheet/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663)
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina" and encourage them to think critically about the text.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: Cherokee women
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.7
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Cherokee Women" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions focus primarily on the Cherokee matrilineal kinship system and on the cultural differences between the Cherokee and the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
