Process

      Through a constructivist learning strategy, students will become active learners in exploring and understanding the faces of slavery. Students will become familiar with answering Document- Based Questions that will culminate in an essay.  Through a constructed response format, students will be given various stimuli such as photographs, quotations, reading passages, and primary source documents that will enable them to respond to these questions.  Each student will have a project binder in which he will keep all related materials.

     Through the process of a WebQuest, you will explore the meaning and the morality of the slavery question as viewed in American history up to 1860. A WebQuest is a guided research activity that you can access via the web. You will become an active learner in this process, using resources selected by your teachers and librarian. You will also begin to look at and understand the economic benefits of slavery to the Southern plantation owner. You will also understand that slavery by its very term denies the individual the social and human justice that he is entitled to because he is a person.  

    The seventh grade students will create a tableau of the many faces of slavery that contributed to the Civil War.

    The seventh grade students will create a video presentation highlighting major slavery issues that ultimately contributed to the Civil War. The video will become part of our Library Media Center's resource collection to be used in the future by classroom teachers.

    Students will then be invited to present a social studies lesson to the fifth grade. Incorporated in the lesson will be portions of their video. They will also make active use of technology presentation tools, such as a Smart Board, PowerPoint and Inspiration software.