Julilly dreams of freedom after being taken from her mother by a slave trader. Will she ever be free again? A resource focuses on the first chapter of Barbara Smucker's book Underground to Canada, and includes 10 vocabulary words, comprehension questions, and an activity to create sentences with similes.

Concepts

novels, studying literature, responding to literature

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Study along with standards pertaining to slavery and the Civil War
• Use a map to track the journey to freedom

Classroom Considerations

• Provides only a preview of the full novel study

Pros

• Offers language activities using verbs and nouns
• Suggests themes to teach along with the novel

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.4 RL.5.10