Student blog for 8/7 2010 (Language Arts/History&Geography/Physical Education)
Friday, December 3, 2010
Black History Assembly 2
Ok lets start with the basics...we have to research and know the facts and stories well to make an accurate story. Lets go with the underground railway story. research and post and create a basic story line that we can use to create a movie script.
Between 1840 and 1860, before the American Civil War, enslaved Africans followed the North Star on the Underground Railroad to find freedom in Canada.Was not an actual railroad but a secret network of routes and safe houses that helped people escape slavery and reach free states or Canada.
For the underground railroad,maybe we could do the story from more the perspective of a family of slaves who run away from a plantation,during the time slavery is in the southern United States.Maybe the northern parts have abolished slavery and the family is trying to make their way to Canada.Maybe the family can get help from Harriet Tubman in the story,or another hero that was dedicated to freeing slaves.
We can have actors to impersonate Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglas, or Thomas Garrett. These people, if not icons in the underground railroad, assisted the ex-slaves get through the underground railroad.
I think the railway story is a good basic story line we can do.
The "railroad" actually began operating in the 1780s, but became known as the Underground Railroad in the 1830s. The organization used railroad terms as code words. Those who helped people move from place to place were known as "conductors" and the fleeing refugees were called "passengers" or "cargo." Safe places to stop to rest were called "stations." Conductors were also abolitionists—people who wanted slavery abolished. They were Blacks and Whites, men and women. Many of them were Quakers or Methodists.
the slaves worked hard in plantations 6 days a week to make slave owners rich. then Harriet Tubman decided that she wanted to be free and she ran away in 1849. but later she came back to free the others. she never lost a passenger in her journey and got everyone to Canada safely.
well , we all should know that the underground railroad isnt a rail road but some slaves ecasping from their masters and they take differnt paths to northern states.so they can be free and live their own lives without being a slave The reason why these slaves escaping were given the name the Underground Railroad was because a master was trying to find his slave that had escaped. When he was nowhere to be found his master thought that his slave had went underground by railway.
What we could do is have a cast of three-four main charcaters who are enslaved in the american south and about their story of escaping slavery through the underground railroad. we could have other students be the conductors of the network who help shelter the slaves from the new fugitive slave act which enslaved people of colour and sent them back south inless they could prove otherwise. we could have some students be the slave cacthers. And how our main cast of three people join the canadaian bound stream of self liberated slaves when they journey into canada to help fight for the future of other slaves.
I think that the underground railroad is a big part of the black history month.
The Underground Railroad has been the subject of a certain amount of myth-making. Because of the secrecy required for its success, there hasn't been much documentation to describe its role in our history. It is impossible to know for certain how many slaves found freedom by way of the railroad, but it may have been as many as 30 000. The railroad's traffic reached its peak between 1840 and 1860, especially after the US passed its Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. The new law allowed slave hunters to pursue and capture enslaved persons in places where they would legally be free. It resulted in several attempts to kidnap escapees in Canada and return them to former owners in the Southern States.
Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.
And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape.
Heres a picture of the routes used by the underground railroad. http://dalegoodie.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/underground_railroad1.jpg We can derive the proper setting if we research a bit on how the eco-systems are in the cities and states that the underground railroad ran through
last year in ms.merraro class we did a underground presentation so it would be easy to do it again,but this time we are making a movie.a site we used was http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad
the safe houses are where the slaves stayed and the people who stayed there had a special calling to let the slaves know that they were safe.the calling was normally of an animal like a owl or a wolf.
continuation, after wards we can have a scene were the main characters meet george brown and join his newspaper the globe and its movement with the abolition movement.
We need people that assist the underground railroad(the ones in the houses),because there like one of the main characters and like the owners of the slaves and cops and the slaves themselves.And another character was Isaac T. Hopper the one who created the underground railroad
I have found a site where there is terminology used in the underground railroad, they were used secretly to describe what they were doing without arousing suspicion. http://www.osblackhistory.com/glossary.php We can shine up our script with this list of terms and maybe make it more realistic
the underground railroad was a long and treacherous journey through many states. they went through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and a long strech (402 kilometres) through the Appalachain mountains. going across lake erie was dangerous too especially in winter as you had to jump across ice chunks in the water. that would be very cold. on top of all that, you had to hide from bounty hunters; the people looking for you.
For the slave, running away to the North was anything but easy. The first step was to escape from the slaveholder. For many slaves, this meant relying on his or her own resources. Sometimes a "conductor," posing as a slave, would enter a plantation and then guide the runaways northward.
to the site i posted before if you click on class room ideas it gives you ideas on the underground railroad. you can also look at faces of freedom and i shows some of the faces of freedom. we can use this to modle our characters for the movie.
i agree with el presidente we can have main charcaters be the slaves and others be the peolpe who help them get to canada and gain freedom i was also thinking about making the gym look like a place where slaves worked. a lady Harriet Tubman, a former slave who ran away from a nearby plantation in 1849 but returns to rescue others. she encoraged other to escape and get freedom
it sayed that the underground railroad led slaves (mostly african americans) and refugees to many places the biggest route led to canada, others led to mexico and over seas, what can we do or improvize to showcase all the different routes??
i think that for the assembly we can choose a family of slave and do movie on that just like gurinder said becasue if are going to do a movie on everything that happened every family that was envolved it is going to take a long time and i don't think we have enough time to do that so i agree with gurinder about doing it only on a family of slaves. we can also add some of the main characters of the underground railroad just like EL Presidente said, one of them might be Harriet Tubman. we can add some of the other main characters that were involved in the underground railroad. this is what i think we should do for the black history month's movie.
In the underground railroad slaves didjnt have freedom, they couldnt do anything against their owners will they would have to follow the orders of their owner. the slaves were sold and if you were young you would be worth a lot, if you were a baby you wouldnt be worth as much as young,if you were a child you would be worth almost as much as young people and if you were a senior you wouldnt be worth much.slaves werent aloud to read or write, start buisness o ftheir own. If you were a slave you would be able to have the same food or anything the same as white people, basically you couldnt do much.so the slaves when they couldnt see the way their children were being taken away or the way they were being treated they ESCAPED. They tried not to get caught and they hid while seach dogs of the white would search for them and if the slaves were caught they would be killed, sold etc. The slaves would look for lanterns on house which meant SAFE, the house which were owned by white people and most of the time the salves wouldnt even go inside because how were to trust another white??? but if they went insid ethey would find hot food people to care but not all the houses were like this some were traps.
only a small percent of slaves ran away to freedom. most stayed behind and cotinued working. millions fought in subtler ways like work slowdowns, sabotage and "sickness".
so for the movie we do 4-6 slaves who are first showed working in thier owners house then this person comes has a rich man and pretends to be a fellow firend of the owner and wants to take 5-6 slaves at is place and use them as slaves because is he short of them but actually he is a cunductor who wants them to go up north where there is no slavery. so he calls them one night and tells them the plan and he also gives some weapons for self defense and tells them to leave tonight and tells them their are going to be save houses who are going to help by givng you a place to rest, give you food and tell you your path that you should continue on. you will find out it is save house because thier be fire glowing on the window. the code word is firend of firend. then when the slaves leave the next day when their owner finds out that thier slaves escaped they will find the conductor and they put him in prison try to ask the where they went and the owners try to follow the slaves by hiring two slave catchers who go after them and in one of the save houses when one of the slave goes outside to get food the slave catchers catch him and then he try to run and one of the slave catchers shoot him.
i think that would be great so we can get some knowledge about the underground rail road.
ReplyDeleteBetween 1840 and 1860, before the American Civil War, enslaved Africans followed the North Star on the Underground Railroad to find freedom in Canada.Was not an actual railroad but a secret network of routes and safe houses that helped people escape slavery and reach free states or Canada.
ReplyDeleteFor the underground railroad,maybe we could do the story from more the perspective of a family of slaves who run away from a plantation,during the time slavery is in the southern United States.Maybe the northern parts have abolished slavery and the family is trying to make their way to Canada.Maybe the family can get help from Harriet Tubman in the story,or another hero that was dedicated to freeing slaves.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
ReplyDeletethis wesite - good info
We can have actors to impersonate Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglas, or Thomas Garrett. These people, if not icons in the underground railroad, assisted the ex-slaves get through the underground railroad.
ReplyDeleteI think the railway story is a good basic story line we can do.
ReplyDeleteThe "railroad" actually began operating in the 1780s, but became known as the Underground Railroad in the 1830s. The organization used railroad terms as code words. Those who helped people move from place to place were known as "conductors" and the fleeing refugees were called "passengers" or "cargo." Safe places to stop to rest were called "stations." Conductors were also abolitionists—people who wanted slavery abolished. They were Blacks and Whites, men and women. Many of them were Quakers or Methodists.
the slaves worked hard in plantations 6 days a week to make slave owners rich. then Harriet Tubman decided that she wanted to be free and she ran away in 1849. but later she came back to free the others. she never lost a passenger in her journey and got everyone to Canada safely.
ReplyDeletewe can have a scene where people are running away from the slave captures
ReplyDeletewell , we all should know that the underground railroad isnt a rail road but some slaves ecasping from their masters and they take differnt paths to northern states.so they can be free and live their own lives without being a slave
ReplyDeleteThe reason why these slaves escaping were given the name the Underground Railroad was because a master was trying to find his slave that had escaped. When he was nowhere to be found his master thought that his slave had went underground by railway.
we can have people act as levi coffin the person in charge of the underground rail road.
ReplyDeleteWhat we could do is have a cast of three-four main charcaters who are enslaved in the american south and about their story of escaping slavery through the underground railroad.
ReplyDeletewe could have other students be the conductors of the network who help shelter the slaves from the new fugitive slave act which enslaved people of colour and sent them back south inless they could prove otherwise. we could have some students be the slave cacthers.
And how our main cast of three people join the canadaian bound stream of self liberated slaves when they journey into canada to help fight for the future of other slaves.
I think that the underground railroad is a big part of the black history month.
ReplyDeleteThe Underground Railroad has been the subject of a certain amount of myth-making. Because of the secrecy required for its success, there hasn't been much documentation to describe its role in our history. It is impossible to know for certain how many slaves found freedom by way of the railroad, but it may have been as many as 30 000. The railroad's traffic reached its peak between 1840 and 1860, especially after the US passed its Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. The new law allowed slave hunters to pursue and capture enslaved persons in places where they would legally be free. It resulted in several attempts to kidnap escapees in Canada and return them to former owners in the Southern States.
continuation of my other post, then we could have a scene that shows 50 years later the lasting impact of this important movement.
ReplyDeletewe can have a sene when one of us has been whiped by their master and treated like they are not worth it(im doing some research about it so)
ReplyDeleteYour body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape.
this one way i think we can make the movie!!
and add more onto it,
ReplyDeleteand dress like how they did back then
Heres a picture of the routes used by the underground railroad.
ReplyDeletehttp://dalegoodie.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/underground_railroad1.jpg
We can derive the proper setting if we research a bit on how the eco-systems are in the cities and states that the underground railroad ran through
last year in ms.merraro class we did a underground presentation so it would be easy to do it again,but this time we are making a movie.a site we used was http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad
ReplyDeletethe safe houses are where the slaves stayed and the people who stayed there had a special calling to let the slaves know that they were safe.the calling was normally of an animal like a owl or a wolf.
continuation, after wards we can have a scene were the main characters meet george brown
ReplyDeleteand join his newspaper the globe and its movement with the abolition movement.
We need people that assist the underground railroad(the ones in the houses),because there like one of the main characters and like the owners of the slaves and cops and the slaves themselves.And another character was Isaac T. Hopper the one who created the underground railroad
ReplyDeleteHeres a great site for imformation about the underground rail road http://www.pc.gc.ca/canada/proj/cfc-ugrr/itm2-com/pg05_e.asp
ReplyDeleteI have found a site where there is terminology used in the underground railroad, they were used secretly to describe what they were doing without arousing suspicion.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.osblackhistory.com/glossary.php
We can shine up our script with this list of terms and maybe make it more realistic
the underground railroad was a long and treacherous journey through many states. they went through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and a long strech (402 kilometres) through the Appalachain mountains. going across lake erie was dangerous too especially in winter as you had to jump across ice chunks in the water. that would be very cold. on top of all that, you had to hide from bounty hunters; the people looking for you.
ReplyDeleteFor the slave, running away to the North was anything but easy. The first step was to escape from the slaveholder. For many slaves, this meant relying on his or her own resources. Sometimes a "conductor," posing as a slave, would enter a plantation and then guide the runaways northward.
ReplyDeleteto the site i posted before if you click on class room ideas it gives you ideas on the underground railroad. you can also look at faces of freedom and i shows some of the faces of freedom. we can use this to modle our characters for the movie.
ReplyDeletehttp://pathways.thinkport.org/about/about1.cfm
ReplyDeleteGood website with loads of info
i agree with el presidente we can have main charcaters be the slaves and others be the peolpe who help them get to canada and gain freedom
ReplyDeletei was also thinking about making the gym look like a place where slaves worked.
a lady Harriet Tubman, a former slave who ran away from a nearby plantation in 1849 but returns to rescue others. she encoraged other to escape and get freedom
it sayed that the underground railroad led slaves (mostly african americans) and refugees to many places the biggest route led to canada, others led to mexico and over seas, what can we do or improvize to showcase all the different routes??
ReplyDeletei think that for the assembly we can choose a family of slave and do movie on that just like gurinder said becasue if are going to do a movie on everything that happened every family that was envolved it is going to take a long time and i don't think we have enough time to do that so i agree with gurinder about doing it only on a family of slaves. we can also add some of the main characters of the underground railroad just like EL Presidente said, one of them might be Harriet Tubman. we can add some of the other main characters that were involved in the underground railroad. this is what i think we should do for the black history month's movie.
ReplyDeleteIn the underground railroad slaves didjnt have freedom, they couldnt do anything against their owners will they would have to follow the orders of their owner. the slaves were sold and if you were young you would be worth a lot, if you were a baby you wouldnt be worth as much as young,if you were a child you would be worth almost as much as young people and if you were a senior you wouldnt be worth much.slaves werent aloud to read or write, start buisness o ftheir own.
ReplyDeleteIf you were a slave you would be able to have the same food or anything the same as white people, basically you couldnt do much.so the slaves when they couldnt see the way their children were being taken away or the way they were being treated they ESCAPED.
They tried not to get caught and they hid while seach dogs of the white would search for them and if the slaves were caught they would be killed, sold etc. The slaves would look for lanterns on house which meant SAFE, the house which were owned by white people and most of the time the salves wouldnt even go inside because how were to trust another white???
but if they went insid ethey would find hot food people to care but not all the houses were like this some were traps.
only a small percent of slaves ran away to freedom. most stayed behind and cotinued working. millions fought in subtler ways like work slowdowns, sabotage and "sickness".
ReplyDelete@pharoah
ReplyDeleteThinkquest might help too
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/underground_railroad.htm
http://www.nationalcenter.org/UndergroundRailroad.html
ReplyDeletegood website for the biography on levi coffin
watch this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/1-2_underground_railroad.html
so for the movie we do 4-6 slaves who are first showed working in thier owners house then this person comes has a rich man and pretends to be a fellow firend of the owner and wants to take 5-6 slaves at is place and use them as slaves because is he short of them but actually he is a cunductor who wants them to go up north where there is no slavery. so he calls them one night and tells them the plan and he also gives some weapons for self defense and tells them to leave tonight and tells them their are going to be save houses who are going to help by givng you a place to rest, give you food and tell you your path that you should continue on. you will find out it is save house because thier be fire glowing on the window. the code word is firend of firend. then when the slaves leave the next day when their owner finds out that thier slaves escaped they will find the conductor and they put him in prison try to ask the where they went and the owners try to follow the slaves by hiring two slave catchers who go after them and in one of the save houses when one of the slave goes outside to get food the slave catchers catch him and then he try to run and one of the slave catchers shoot him.
ReplyDeletein the end maybe the would have to cross lake erie by either a boat or jump from ice pad to ice pad
ReplyDelete@Ultimate Dragovian
ReplyDeleteIt definetly does.