Strategy - 1. Teachers shares information on slavery in the America - years, places 2. Each group is given a short piece from the web site Africans in America to share aloud. Groups prepare the main points of the piece on large paper. The groups share with the entire class and other classmates copy charts for their notes.
Students add information to their notes.
Lest We Forget, African Beginnings. Share books about others in modern day oppression, such as Voices From The Field. Students write stories about how they would feel to be a slave or how they would work toward making slaves free.