Sample Lesson Plan:

Sample Collaborative Lesson Plan - 5th-grade Social Studies: The Middle Passage - Topical Text Set and Links for Internet Pathfinder

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Resources (for the educators)
Frank, Andrew. (1995). The Birth of Black America: The Age of Discovery and the Slave Trade. Chelsea House. (ISBN#: 0791022579)

Hayden, Robert. "Middle Passage." http://www.cosmoetica.com/S16-DES11.htm

Lester, Julius. (1968). To Be a Slave. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. Dial. (ISBN#: 0803723474) Read selected passages.

Palmer, Colin A. (1995). The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas, 1502-1617. Oxford University. (ISBN#:0195099052)

Postma, Johannes. (2003). The Atlantic Slave Trade. Greenwood. (ISBN#: 031331862X) This book includes primary documents of the Atlantic slave trade (Olaudah Equiano, pp. 105-110).

Resources (for the students/educators)

Informational Books
**Haskins, James & Benson, Kathleen. (2004). Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. (ISBN#: 0688102581) Short chapters, drawings, artifacts, and illustrations, timeline, and information about all of the participants: white and black slave traders, Africans, ships, slaves on board ship, and a mention or two of North American buyers.

**McKissack, Patricia and Frederick L., Jr. (2004). Hard Labor: The First African Americans, 1619. Aladdin. (ISBN# 0689861508) This 68-page quick read answers questions such as: Who were the first blacks to come to the Americas? When and why did they come? When did racism become a part of slavery?

**Meadows, James. (2002). Slavery: The Struggle for Freedom. The Child's World. (ISBN#: 1567669239) 1450 through the Civil War, this book has powerful illustrations, captions, highlighted glossary words, timeline, index, and accessible text.

**Meltzer, Milton. (2000). They Came in Chains: The Story of Slave Ships. Marshall Cavendish. (ISBN#: 076140967X) This book provides many details of conditions on slave ships for more sophisticated readers.

**Monaghan, Tom. (2003). The Slave Trade. Raintree Steck-Vaughn. (ISBN#: 0739858025) This book contains accessible, brief paragraphs with information on all stakeholders.

**Rappaport, Doreen. (2002). No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance. Illustrated by Shane W. Evans. Candlewick. (ISBN#: 0763609846) Read author's note and use the songs as models for group composition and performance.

Informational Picture Book
Feelings, Tom. (1995). The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. Dial. (ISBN#: 0803718047) After introductions by the author-illustrator and a scholar, readers will be moved by this wordless book composed with pen, ink and tempera.

Picture Book Fiction
**Myers, Dean Walter. (2003). Blue's Journey. Illustrated by Christopher Myers. Holiday. (ISBN#: 0823416135) This blues poem begins with the Middle Passage and ends in modern days.

Web Sites (See Internet Pathfinder.)

Video
Roots. (1977). Warner. From the book by Alex Haley. Each episode is 90 minutes.

Internet Pathfinder (To be posted to the Web for student use)

Below are links to Web sites that will support the students' study of the Middle Passage.

For Internet Pathfinder:
"As you conduct your research, remember to search for information related to the perspective of your slave trade stakeholder: European slave trader, African slave trader, African, slave on board ship, slaver (ship), and North American slave buyer."

Juneteenth. The Middle Passage: http://www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm

Library of Congress. Slavery: The Peculiar Institution: The Atlantic Slave Trade: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

Greg (Barnard College). Middle Passage: Slaves at Sea: http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar5.html

PBS. Africans in America - The Terrible Transformation: The Middle Passage: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html

Becker, Eddie. Timeline on the History of Slavery: http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

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