Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
African American Studies
Goal 2, Objective 2.03
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Slavery and bias in historic West Africa: A case of he said, he said
- In this lesson, students will examine three primary source documents concerning West African history, and will work to discover the similarities and differences between the documents. Students will discover the biases revealed by the authors of the documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Shane Freeman.
- 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.
- 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.
