Harriet Tubman is a symbol of strength and leadership in the face of conflict and injustice. he 8th grade will spend the next two weeks learning more about the Underground Railroad and slave narratives through a biography on Tubman, Internet research, and class lectures. At the end of the week students will begin prewriting as they prepare to write a historical fiction short story about a runaway slave.
Vocabulary this week:
third-person narrative (131), Fugitive Slave Law (133), fugitives (133), incentive (135), disheveled (135), guttural (135), mutinous (137), cajoling (137), indomitable (137), fastidious (139)
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