Choices In

Black And White

The Choices of Owner and Slave

Choices in Black and White is a unit of activities designed to help students realize that they have many choices as a child that Booker never had as a slave.

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

• History and Social Science

• Mathematics

• English

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Activities

1. Vocabulary
Designed to help students become familiar with the terms used in activities.

2. Choices
Students will collect and compile data and construct a bar graph showing results.

3. Map Activity
Students will label a map of the Southeastern U.S. emphasizing places important to Booker T. Washington.

4. Map of Southeastern U.S.
Duplicate for Map Activity

5. Freedom
Students will compose a class poem.

6. Venn Diagram
Students will compare the rights of Booker as a slave child to the rights that they enjoy today.

7. Timeline
Students will construct a timeline of Booker T. Washington's life.

8. Dear President Lincoln
Students will write a postcard to President Lincoln telling him how it feels to be a newly freed slave.

9. Postcard
Duplicate for Dear President Lincoln activity

10. Diorama
Students will construct a diorama and give an oral report to the class.

11. Underground Railroad
Students will listen to readings and discuss the Underground Railroad.

12. Booker's Story
Students will write about important moments in Booker's life and illustrate.

     Appendix
     Children´s Book List
     Adult Book List
     Booker T. Washington´s Story
     Emancipation Proclamation

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