Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom” EDUCATOR GUIDE TEACHER’S GUIDE Table of Contents Overview Content Briefing – PLEASE READ THIS FIRST ....................................................................................... 5 About Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom” .............................................................................................. .......... 7 Mission 2 At A Glance ............................................................................................................................... 10 Essential Questions ..................................................................................................................................... 15 Models of Instruction .................................................................................................................................. 16 Learning Goals ............................................................................................................................................ 21 National Standards Alignment ................................................................................................................... 24 Background Timeline of Events Before, During, and After the Mission ........................................................................ 30 Educator’s Primer on the Historical Period ................................................................................................ 37 Glossary of Key Terms ................................................................................................................................ 45 Character Overview and Historical Figure Profiles ................................................................................... 54 Myths and Misinformation ......................................................................................................................... 60 Top 5 Things To Know Before You Play..................................................................................................... 64 Activities Pre-Game Activity #1 ................................................................................................................................. 65 Pre-Game Activity #2: Cause and Effect .................................................................................................... 79 Pre-Mission Document Based Activities: Slavery By the Numbers ......................................................... 113 Part 1: Behind the Big House Part 1 Document Based Activity: Slave Quarter Photographs ................................................................ 129 Part 1 Vocabulary Activity ....................................................................................................................... 136 Part 1 Writing Prompts ............................................................................................................................ 146 Part 1 Review Questions .......................................................................................................................... 149 Part 2: Runaway! Part 2 Document Based Activity: Life & Adventures of Henry Bibb ....................................................... 153 Part 2 Document Based Activity: Runaway Posters & Advertisements ................................................. 166 Part 2 Vocabulary Activity ....................................................................................................................... 172 Part 2 Writing Prompts ............................................................................................................................ 181 Part 2 Review Questions .......................................................................................................................... 184 Part 3: Free and Not Free Part 3 Vocabulary Activity ....................................................................................................................... 188 Part 3 Writing Prompts ............................................................................................................................ 197 Part 3 Review Questions .......................................................................................................................... 200 2 TEACHER’S GUIDE Part 4: Gathering Forces Part 4 Document Based Activity: The Power of Rhetoric ........................................................................ 204 Part 4 Vocabulary Activity ....................................................................................................................... 213 Part 4 Writing Prompts ............................................................................................................................ 222 Part 4 Review Questions .......................................................................................................................... 225 Part 5: New Times, New Troubles Part 5 Vocabulary Activity ....................................................................................................................... 229 Part 5 Writing Prompts ............................................................................................................................ 238 Part 5 Review Questions .......................................................................................................................... 241 Epilogue Epilogue Document Based Activity: John Brown’s Raid .......................................................................... 245 Activities for Use Throughout the Mission Engaging Students in Multimedia Projects ............................................................................................. 253 Daily Log Sheet ......................................................................................................................................... 258 Resources Additional Media Resources ..................................................................................................................... 260 Character and Scene Printables ................................................................................................................ 275 Primary Source Documents Kentucky Slave Codes (1794-1850) .......................................................................................................... 292 The United States School Primer (1844) .................................................................................................. 293 “A History of the Amistad Captives” Advertising Broadside (1840) ...................................................... 296 Fancy Dresses from Godey’s Lady Book (1848) .................................................................................... 298 Slave Pass (1852) ...................................................................................................................................... 299 “Sale of Slaves and Stock” Poster (1852) ................................................................................................. 300 “$1200 to $1250 Dollars! For Negroes!!” Poster (1853) ......................................................................... 301 Brer Rabbit’s “The Tar Baby” ................................................................................................................... 303 “INFAMOUS!” Kentucky Newspaper Editorial (1847) .......................................................................... 306 “Negro Stealing” Kentucky Newspaper Editorial (1847) ........................................................................ 307 Slave Narrative by Henry Bibb (1849) ..................................................................................................... 308 John Parker on the Challenges of Running Away .................................................................................... 310 “Plantation Police” in Mississippi, 1863 ................................................................................................. 311 Interview with a Former Kentucky Slave About Escape and Capture ..................................................... 312 William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator: “I WILL BE HEARD” (1831) .................................................. 313 William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator: “On The Constitution and Union” (1832) ............................... 314 Editorial From Anti-Abolitionist Newspaper in Ohio (1842) .................................................................. 315 Proslavery Letter From Anti-Abolitionist Newspaper in Ohio (1848) .................................................... 316 3 TEACHER’S GUIDE Free Soil Party Platform (1848) ................................................................................................................ 317 “The Transportation of Free Blacks to Africa” (1850) .............................................................................. 319 Excerpt from Frederick Douglass Autobiography ................................................................................... 320 Summary of the Fugitive Slave Law ......................................................................................................... 322 “Caution!! Colored People of Boston” Anti-Slavery Poster (1855) ......................................................... 323 “Great Sale of Slaves” Auction Poster (1855) .......................................................................................... 324 “A Bold Stroke For Freedom” Print (1855) .............................................................................................. 325 Harriet Jacobs on Impact of Fugitive