Teaching American History – Lesson Plan Template



Teacher’s Name: Hiralda Cruz

Employee Number: 286366

School: William H Turner Technical Arts High School

Social Studies Lesson Plan Template

1. Title: African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War

2. Overview - Big Ideas:

Enduring Understandings – Fully one-third of Patriot soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill were African Americans. Census data also reveal that there were slaves and free Blacks living in the North in 1790 and after. What do we know about African-American communities in the North in the years after the American Revolution?

In this lesson, students will tour and/or read about some important free African-American communities thriving in the North before the Civil War.

Essential Questions –

1. What was life like in three free African-American communities between the American Revolution and the Civil War?

2. What generalizations can be made about life in the North for African Americans?

3. Lesson Objectives and Key Vocabulary:

Standards - SS.912.A.1.1: Describe the importance of historiography, which includes how historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted, when interpreting events in history.

SS.912.A.1.2: Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period.

4. Evidence of Student Understanding (Assessment) in this Lesson:

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this lesson? What will students be able to do as a result of such knowledge and skills?

After completing the lessons in this unit, students will be able to:

-Name and locate on a map the African-American communities studied.

-Describe some important elements of everyday life in one or more communities.

5. Materials Needed:

Textbook, Power point, Promethean Board

Primary Source

6. Steps to Deliver the Lesson:

Start the students on a discussion on African Americans in a Plantation community and African Americans in a Free African American Communities.

For background on African Americans between the American Revolution and the Civil War, read the essay Risen from Our Blood and Tears from Humanities magazine, published by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Part I and Part II of “Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period”. For more detail, as well as a discussion of manumission—the most common route to emancipation—read Free Blacks in the United States on . For background on Philadelphia, read Margaret Washington on Philadelphia.

Students will research three communities. They can work in three groups with each group studying one community, or in six groups with each community covered by two groups. If four groups suits best, assign two groups to Philadelphia, as there are many resources available for that community.

7. Specific Activities: (From Guided to Independent)

Warm-up- discussion question, document analysis, research activity, Presentation from group activity.

8. Differentiated Instruction Strategies:

The variety of learning styles were achieved by the incorporation of various tools used, video clips, text and students were paired in groups based on their varying abilities. The enrichment activities provided were the research aspect and group presentation.

9. Technology Integration:

Video

10. Lesson Closure:

Discuss the responses to the communities researched.

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