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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- Reading guide: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.8
- This worksheet will help students understand the article "Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region," and will encourage them to make connections between the Chesapeake Indians and the Indians of coastal North Carolina. Students will also consider multiple perspectives as they think critically about the interactions between Indians and newly-arrived Europeans in the 1600s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: Spain and America
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.2
- These terms and questions will guide students as they read "Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest." Filling in the chronological list of dates will enable students to understand the order in which events unfolded in Spain and in America, and answering the questions will encourage students to think critically about the readings in the chapter.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: The religious world of the Cherokee
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.6
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Maintaining Balance: The Religious World of the Cherokee" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions ask the students to consider Cherokee religious beliefs and how they may have affected interactions with the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Teaching suggestions: Graveyard of the Atlantic
- These suggested activities will help your students develop a deeper understanding of the information in the article "Graveyard of the Atlantic."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Teaching suggestions: A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- These teaching suggestions will help you discuss "A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina" with your class and will provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of the reading. The questions and activities will encourage students to think critically about the text and to develop historical empathy.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Theories of migration
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing
- This article introduces the concept of tobacco bag stringing and discusses its importance as a source of income for women in North Carolina and Virginia during the Great Depression. Adapted for elementary students.
- Format: article
- Adapted by Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four
- In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate a primary source letter from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing. Students will investigate the influence of technology, and its lack, on the tobacco bag stringers. They will do a role play/debate in which they will assume the roles of owners of companies and other people that were involved in the issue.
- Format: article (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity one
- This activity for grades 3–6 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an adapted introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity three
- In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: article (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity five
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will evaluate primary source photographs from the tobacco bag stringing collection and some of Lewis Hine's photographs from the George Eastman House collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity four
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will examine primary source photographs and biographical information that were collected for the Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation to set up a data record.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity four data matrix
- Data matrix to accompany "Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity four."
- Format: document/lesson plan
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity one
- This activity for grades 7–12 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity seven
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students take on the role of legislators who must make a decision concerning the passage of an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Students will evaluate the impact of emotional appeal in persuasion. This activity builds on information learned in activities one through six.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity three
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will evaluate primary source photographs from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "Two Worlds" introductory activity
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.1
- Through the use of a carousel brainstorming strategy, this introductory activity for 8th grade social studies enables teachers to discover what their students already know about the geography and history of North Carolina. Students will work cooperatively and will recognize that they have much to learn about their state.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Understanding Culpeper's Rebellion
- This lesson will allow students to present their understanding of a critical event in the history of colonial Carolina by analyzing the article "Culpeper’s Rebellion," examining the causes and effects, and in groups developing and performing a skit that tells the story of the rebellion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Understanding the Columbian Exchange
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 5.1
- This lesson will help students think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, particularly the exchange of disease as it affected the psychology of the Europeans and Native populations in the early settlement of the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
