Teaching Middle Passage | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In Entry 1, we learn that Rutherford came to New Orleans from working in the cotton fields prior to gaining his freedom. Cotton was one of the primary cash crops of the antebellum South, and it is very likely that much of the money that financed the Republic's trip was cotton money. The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the importance of cotton...
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