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.

Child Labor in Cotton Mills of the Early 20th Century: This lesson will provide students with a look into mill life and child labor in the South in the early 20th century, as part of the story of American industrialization. Students will examine a poster from a mill village as a focus and review activity and students will read a document calling for an end to child labor in Southern cotton mills, especially focusing on ending the employment of females under 14 years of age.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.

Lunsford Lane: A Slave in North Carolina Who Buys His Freedom: Lunsford Lane's story is about a slave who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though his master owns as many as three plantations outside of Raleigh, Mr. Lane is not a plantation slave. Rather, he works for his master in the city-dwelling. His story provides an example of an ingenious, determined, and disciplined slave who's vision and creativity affords him the opportunity to earn money and eventually buy his freedom. This is an incredible story.; 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.