"To Be A Slave" Curriculum-Based Education Program

To Be A Slave

The Boyhood of Booker T. Washington

Table of Contents for "To Be A Slave"

Learning Activities for Students Grades K-1

"To Be A Slave" is a unit of activities designed to introduce students to Booker T. Washington and what his life as a slave was like.

Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools that are met by a visit to the site and the learning activities:

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Pre-Visit Activities

1. Vocabulary
Students will become familiar with terms they will hear during their park visit.

2. Venn Diagram
Students will compare and contrast their lives to Booker´s.

3. Sing, Sing, Sing
Students will learn several songs that would have been sung during Booker´s boyhood.

4. Booker's Favorite Animal
Students will write adjectives that describe a pig.

Pig
Duplicating sheet for Booker´s Favorite Animal activity.

5. Sweet Potato Pone
Students will bake a sweet potato pone.

6. Acrostic
Students will make an acrostic that tells what they learned about Booker.

7. Farm Animals
Students will identify and count animals at Booker T. Washington National Monument,
then construct a simple bar graph.

8. Class Story
Students will write a class story dealing with a slave who becomes free.

Booker T. Washington National Monument
12130 Booker T. Washington Highway
Hardy, Virginia 24101