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State Historic Site: Activities: Middle School, Grades 6 - 8 A visit to the Levi Coffin House State Historic Site and the use of this packet will, in part, fulfill the following requirements from the Indiana Curriculum Proficiency Guide: Language
Arts: Science: Social
Studies:
Grade 7
Grade 8
ACTIVITIES Language
Arts 2) Go to the library or find a history book to look up the Emancipation Proclamation given by Abraham Lincoln. Answer the following questions:
3) Pretend that you are a runaway slave in 1840, trying to get to the Levi Coffin house so Levi and Catharine will help you find freedom. You have reached Kentucky and want to go through Madison to Newport and then to Michigan where you will remain. Write a one-week diary describing your journey. How did you travel? Were you pursued? Describe your stay at the Coffin House. 4) Construct a short poem to describe the emotions of being a runaway slave. Use strong emotional words such as terrifying, frightening, treacherous or dangerous. Read your poem to the class. 5) After your visit to the Levi Coffin House State Historic Site, write a summary paper of your visit comparing and contrasting overall layout of the house with the overall layout of your house. Include the kitchen location, the water source, the size of the stairs, the short doorways and the tow outside doors in the dining room. How as this house build differently from yours? 6) A monologue is a speech given by one character in a play. It may be an entire scene or a time for the character to reflect and speak to the audience. Write a monologue for a runaway slave character. Talk about the hardships of the escape and include Levi Coffin. Perform your monologue for your class or smaller group. Science
Social
Studies 2)
Discussion: Leadership
3) Before your visit to the Levi Coffin House State Historic Site, look at a map of Indiana and locate Jeffersonville and Fountain City. Pretend you are giving directions to a runaway slave traveling from Jeffersonville to Fountain City. Write down directions for travel between the two cities. Remember that the roads may not exist so you must use creative ways to communicate the directions. when you are at the Levi Coffin house, finish your directions with a description of the house and the door the runaway slaves must enter. 4) The Quakers were the main religious group to help the runaway slaves. Research the Quaker faith (The Religious Society of Friends). Look at their beliefs on equality during the 1800s and compare them to the beliefs held by other churches during that time. Answer the following question and present your response to the class:
5)
Read a book written by or about other famous people from the Underground
Railroad like Sojourner Truth, David Ruggles, Harriet Tubman, William
Still or William Wells Brown. Choose one personality and write a
short essay about his or her involvement in the Underground Railroad.
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