Harriet Tubman Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #4

Read Aloud

Performance Standard: MMSIC.7 – Evaluating music and music performances

MMSIC.8 – Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

MMSIC.9 – Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Objectives: Identify and describe relationships between music, dance arts, theatre arts, and visual arts.

Demonstrate literacy skills through reading and discussing musical settings of varied literature.

Reflect on the nature of performance in music and in related arts through discussion.

Essential Question: How are spirituals connected to the history of the late 1800’s?

Supplies: 

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

                                                                             Music CD

KWL Chart

1.    The students wrote down what they knew about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The class discussed any prior knowledge they had on the subject.

2.   The students made suggestions on what they would like to know about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The class discussed what they would like to learn.

3.   The teacher read the story aloud and showed the pictures after reading each page.

4.   At the end of the story, the teacher read the authors notes about Harriet Tubman.

5.   The students dictated what they learned about Harriet Tubman.

6.   We had a classroom discussion about the facts that were learned. The class also discussed vocabulary: safe houses; refuge; cures; spirituals; and coded – spirituals.

7.   Extension activity: The students will listen to “Wade in the Water”, a coded-spiritual. Students will analyze the text and compare the similarities of the Moses of the Bible and the Moses of the Slaves.

The next time I do a lesson of this nature, I will allow for more time to fill in the KWL charts.