{"id":722,"date":"2009-11-12T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:18:06","slug":"introducing-slavery-through-the-slaves-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/12\/introducing-slavery-through-the-slaves-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Slavery through Slaves&#39; Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-721\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/Mary_Kincheon_Edwards_Sml.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Kincheon Edwards\" width=\"120\" height=\"198\" \/>Approaching the topic of slavery can be difficult, especially at the elementary school level when these issues might be discussed for the first time. Posted by the National Endowment for the Humanities, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364\" target=\"_blank\">Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources<\/a>\u201d offers a helpful classroom solution. Students from third to fifth grade read and explore a selection of narratives from the Federal Writers\u2019 Project, after which they evaluate and respond to those sources.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson plan gives several strategies for teachers and the class to review and summarize the narratives in accordance to their needs. In addition, \u201cSlave Narratives\u201d introduces primary sources in the context of a story, before asking students to assess the veracity of the testimony. \u00a0In a very real sense the students are \u201cdoing\u201d history and hopefully fostering an interest at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching the topic of slavery can be difficult, especially at the elementary school level when these issues might be discussed for the first time. Posted by the National Endowment for the Humanities, \u201cSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources\u201d offers a helpful classroom solution. Students from third to fifth grade read and explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,172],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-lesson-plans","category-letters-diaries","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}