Lockdown Y8 – 10. Harriet Tubman

Year 8A – Wednesday 20 May 2020

Year 8B – Thursday 21 May 2020

INTRODUCTION:

As a final task on this topic, we are going to look at the story of Harriet Tubman. She was an American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. Harriet was born into slavery, but she escaped and made about 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people! She used a network of anti-slavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to take slaves from the southern States (where slavery was allowed) to the northern States (where slavery was not allowed). The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into the free northern States. All this began before the American Civil War (1861-1865). (This was a war that was fought between the northern States and the southern States, because of the enslavement of black people. The northern States were against slavery and began to abolish slavery (already in the 1780’s!), but the southern States wanted slaves to work on the plantations in the south. So, there was a civil war between north and south. In the end the northern States won and slavery was therefore abolished all across America in 1865.)

Follow the order in which I give you instructions:

Watch the following 2 video clips on Harriet Tubman. You need to listen carefully, because you will be tested on this!

1822-1913 – Harriet Tubman. (1:52 minutes long)

Harriet Tubman: A Maryland Story. (24:20 minutes long)

Now, go to Schoology and do the timed quiz about the information given today and the video clips that you have just seen. (You have no more than 10 minutes to do this!) This MUST be completed NOW in lesson time! (If you have not submitted the answers before the end of this lesson, you will receive zero for this task.)

Look at the feedback that I sent to your schoology mail. You will find a table that lists the tasks and it also gives your marks. Look at the comments made and then, very carefully, go over the answers below, so that you know where you can improve:

RELIGION IN EUROPE (p.50)