Introduction to Underground to Canada

Copy and paste these questions into a google document and complete them according to the directions given.  This assignment is due on Friday, Oct. 16th.  You can either share the document with myself or print it out and hand it in to the blue box. 

Underground to Canada

Name ___________________

Introduction to the Unit

Please answer each question in a complete sentence.  You will lose marks if you don’t. 

1.  Who is the author of this book?     

2.  What is one interesting fact about the author?

3.  When was this book written?

4.  What historical subject does this novel deal with?

5.  Read the introduction.  Who is Lawrence Hill?  (Check on Wikipedia)

6.  Read the note to the reader.  What is an abolitionist?

7.  What does dialect mean?

8.  Who are the two characters who are actually based on real people? (Read the pages at the end of the book to learn more)

9.  Who is Martin Luther King Jr.? (Check on Wikipedia)

10.  What is a “spiritual”?  How were spirituals used as codes? (2 marks)

11.  What province do the slaves settle in as they escape from the Southern States?

12.  Check out this website: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/underground-railroad-interactive/# and follow the underground railroad.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

Choose one of the following assignments.  (5 marks) 

1.  Imagine you are a young slave taken from his/her family and sold to a slave trader.  Write approximately 250 words describing this situation.   

2.   Create a 5 slide powerpoint on one of the people mentioned in any of the 12 previous questions. 

3.   Draw a picture of the runaway slave picture on an 81/2 x 11 piece of paper.