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What does Freedom mean to you?
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2. Final Writing Project |
Now that you have learned about many people who stood up for our rights and freedoms, please share with us what freedom means to you.
Use the writing plan to help you write an essay about what freedom means to you.
Closing:
After we have all shared our essays, we will reread the Runagate Runagate poem. How have your thoughts about slavery freedom changed? We will share our our thoughts have changed as a class. |
Standards
SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.
a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass
(civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune
(education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt
(United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon
B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and Cesar Chavez (workers’
rights).
b. Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical
figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.
Credits
Flag Image:
http://fla.fg-a.com/flags1a.htm
Backgrounds:
http://www.patrioticon.org/patriotic-backgrounds.htm
Other:
