Introduction
Children in Slavery


This is a literature based unit which is also integrated with Social Studies.  This unit is designed for fifth grade, and also for two grade levels below.  Group 1 is the on-level reading, in which the group will read, Who is Carrie?.  Group 2 is a fourth-grade-level group, and they will be reading, Nettie's Trip South , Song of the Trees, "Wanted Dead or Alive", and The Gold Cadillac.  Group 3 is on third-grade-level, and they will be reading, Nettie's Trip South, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, The Drinking Gourd, and Wanted Dead or Alive.
 

Literature Circle Lessons
 
Group 1: 

Who is Carrie?

Group 2:

Nettie's Trip South
Song of the Trees
"Wanted Dead or Alive"
The Gold Cadillac

 

Group 3:

Nettie's Trip South,
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Wanted Dead or Alive,
The Drinking Gourd,