Meghan Mcglinn
This plan was created with the support of the Documenting the American South collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library System, and NC ECHO.
Resources created by Meghan Mcglinn
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- The African American Experience in NC after Reconstruction
- The documents included in this lesson come from The North Carolina Experience collection of Documenting the American South and specifically focus on African Americans and race relations in the early 20th century. The lesson juxtaposes accounts that relate to both the positive improvements of black society and arguments against advancement. Combined, these primary sources and the accompanying lesson plan could be used as a Document Based Question (DBQ) in an advanced US history or African American history course.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier
- Students read the account of a private from Charlotte who served in the Civil War and grew tired of only hearing about the war from the perspectives of officers. After reading his experiences as a “man behind the gun” students will write their own point-of-view piece. They also have the opportunity to read other diary accounts from the war available through Documenting the American South.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Exploring first person female narratives related to Sherman's march to the sea
- This lesson plan uses first person narratives from the Documenting the American South collection to demonstrate differences in perspective related to historical events, in this case, Sherman's march to the sea. It encourages students to compare the views of two southern ladies with that of a Union soldier.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Exploring the church in the southern black community
- Students explore the Documenting the American South Collection titled, the “Church in the Southern Black Community.” Beginning with a historian's interpretation of the primary sources that make up the collection, students search the collection for evidence to describe the experiences of African Americans living in the south during the Antebellum through the Reconstruction Period centering on their community churches. The activity culminates in student presentations of a digital scrap book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Fugitive Slave Law Simulation
- Students face the crisis issue of the Fugitive Slave Bill which gave southerners the right to regain their runaway slaves and return them to bondage. It is also considered by many to have contributed to growing sectionalism in the U.S. and eventually the Civil War. In order to take on the roles of historical actors, students will examine primary source documents from the Documenting the American South collection and critique arguments in favor and opposed to the Bill.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- North Carolina Women and the Progressive Movement
- This lesson includes primary sources from Documenting the American South specifically related to North Carolina women involved in reform movements characteristic of the Progressive era. For the most part, these documents detail women's work in education-related reform and describe the creation of schools for women in the state. They also demonstrate that, as was true in the rest of the nation, the progressive, female reformers of N.C. were segregated based on race and socio-economic status.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Religion and Slavery in the American South: Comparing Perspectives
- In this lesson plan, students consult a variety of primary sources from the Documenting the American South Collection to uncover the varied impacts of religion in the lives of slaves in the American South. They are encouraged to seek out multiple, and sometimes contradictory, perspectives of this history.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Slave Songs
- This lesson plan allows students to learn more about the religious observances of slaves in the United States by presenting hymns from Slave Songs in the US digitized in the Documenting the American South Collection. This is a great lesson to introduce the intersection of religion and slavery in a US history or African American history class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Slavery and Childhood
- This lesson is designed to extend student understanding of the experiences of slaves living in the American, antebellum south. The chosen samples and excerpts from the Documenting the American South collection reflect the childhood of two enslaved people born in America, Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas, and two people born in Africa, Oloudah Equiano and Omar Bin Said. Two knew what it was like to be free before being captured and placed into servitude, and longed to be free again; two were born into slavery and like the two native born Africans had aspirations of freedom. Students are invited to compare their childhood memories with the lives of these children in an effort to make history more human.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- A visit to colonial North Carolina
- This lesson plan extends student learning about the colonial period in North Carolina history by incorporating primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection. After reading first-hand accounts of travelers to colonial America, students will create their own travel brochure advertising North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Who started the Civil War? Comparing Perspectives on the Causes of the War
- This lesson plans presents the account of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a confederate spy during the Civil War. Students are encouraged to find confirming and disconfirming evidence of her perspective on what caused the Civil War by browsing the Documenting the American South Collection of digitized primary sources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
