New
York State Funding for Arts
Education Partnerships -
SAP
Maplewood Intermediate
School and Dafna Soltes Stein
-
"Knowledge
Alive! The Struggle for Freedom against
Tyranny"
This
year the Maplewood teaching community
was transformed. There is a sense
of calm collegiality, trust
and team effort. This mood
enabled the "Knowledge Alive!" project
to work better than ever before.
The attitude of faculty at professional
development and planning sessions
was enthusiastic and hard working.
Teachers made
time for students to read additional books,
research on line and watch films
about slavery and the Underground
Railroad, helping students to create
more context for themselves. Some
teachers even tried their hand at
doing role-plays with the students!
Classroom
teachers created new writing assignments
on their own to extend learning and
shared these with one another.
Read
more about this project. (PDF)
Student
artwork
Akira, captured into slavery,
dreams of her African village
|
a wanted
poster for an excaped slave |
Bountyhunters mistake
Jacob for a fugitive slave
named Silas and tie him up
in ropes
|
"for
the old man is awaitin' for
to carry you to freedom,
just you follow the drinking
gourd" |
Freed
slaves Jacob and Cora working
in their own cornfield |
Slave Jacob Tanner
in his new clothes
when he is is given his freedom
by his Quaker master in 1793
|
