FREDERICK DOUGLASS: LESSON STUDY:
A MAN & HIS TIMES

II. LESSON PLAN RESOURCES:

Day 1: Video –A&E Biography “Frederick Douglass” http://www.biography.com/search/
article.jsp?aid=9278324&search=

Day 2: Biography- Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist, Newspaper Editor, Orator, 1817-1895 (From Resources > Translating Historian's Lectures into Classroom Practice)
(download either the Acrobat .pdf or MS Word .doc version of the lesson materials)

• Slavery and the Implications of “Telling It Like It Is”
  document_1.doc | document_1.pdf
  
• Douglass’ Moral Argument against Slavery vs. Calhoun’s Structural, Legalistic Argument for States’ Rights -
  document_2.doc | document_2.pdf
  
• Douglass on women’s rights
  document_3.doc | document_3.pdf
  
• Last words on Douglass -New York Times Obituary, February 27, 1895. document_4.doc | document_4.pdf
  

Day 3: Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Slave Lawsuit

• The Dred Scott Case: Digital Collections
  http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
  
• Dred Scott's fight for freedom 1846 - 1857 - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford

Day 4: Call To Freedom, Ch. 18.1, “The Debate Over Slavery” Holt, Rinehart & Winston, c2000

Day 5: Frederick Douglass Timeline
http://memory.loc.gov./ammem/doughtml/timeline.html

Day 6: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” a speech by Frederick Douglass at Rochester, New York, July 4th, 1852

Assessment Rubric: Acrobat .pdf
tahg draft writing biog rubric - 8th and 11th grade.pdf

Frederick Douglass Photos

• http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/
  reform/jb_reform_seneca_2_e.jpg
  
  
• http://www.online-literature.com/authorpics/
  frederick_douglass.jpg