Victoria Schaefer
Resources created by Victoria Schaefer
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- 1869: A report on schools in North Carolina
- In this lesson, students use a guided reading to look at a report on the status of education in North Carolina in 1869, and discuss the reasons given then for why the Governor and Legislature should support educating North Carolina's children. They are provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the 1869 document against their own ideas about the civic duty to attend school through age sixteen, and its relative value to the state and the country.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Victoria Schaefer.
- Lunsford Lane: A slave in North Carolina who buys his freedom
- In this lesson plan, students read a primary source document to learn about the life of Lunsford Lane, a slave who worked in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Students answer questions about Lane based on his memoir to help them understand the details of his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Plantation life in the 1840s: A slave's description
- This lesson introduces students to a description of life on the plantation and the cultivation of cotton from the perspective of a slave. It focuses on the use of slave narratives made available by the Documenting the American South collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
