The Price of Freedom How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

Title:  The Price of Freedom How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

Author: Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin

Illustrator:  Eric Velasquez

ISBN:  9780802721679

Summary: 

A town dedicated to helping slaves thru the Underground Railroad, and how this one town stood up for freedom.

 

Rating:

The book is a great book.

AR Information		Lexile Information
Level	5.7	Age range	8-10 years
Quiz Point Value	.5	Book type	Not Listed
Grade Interest Level	4-8	Lexile measure	940L

 (The AR and Lexile information is pulled straight from their websites. Arbookfind.com and lexile.com)

 

Curriculum Connections: (These standards are simply the ones I found right off as some I may use for a lesson with the book listed.  I in no way am trying to state these are the only standards that fit this book.)

CCSS

RI.5.3

 

Reading:

I would use this book as a read aloud and in guided reading groups.  It would be part of my thematic unit on slavery.

 

Writing and Speaking:

The students would do a research project on influential person in slavery and making slavery unconstitutional.

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-slavery

 

Additional uses:

This could also be integrated into Social Studies.

 

Related Internet Resources:

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/juneteenth-proclamation-jubilation-lesson-plan/

http://www.pinterest.com/heatherknox07/reading/

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-revolution/1917

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/lessons.html

http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/slavery.html