Case Study #4
Jigsaw Sets
DAY
4
What to Expect: Today’s Lesson
Warm Up
Learning target, check-in
Optimistic closure
Vocabulary
Putting our key definitions into context
Jigsaw
Source analysis
Wrap Up
I can investigate how Black people and their allies resisted the horrible conditions of enslavement.
Learning Target
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Check-In
Pick one the rest vanish forever
SECTION ONE: INCLUSIVE WELCOME
Vocabulary
Definition:
Acting and believing that racial groups are equals; actively fighting against racism.
Example:
Frederick Douglass and his allies fought against slavery by escaping and helping hundreds of other enslaved Black people escape to freedom. He also published a newspaper in Rochester, NY that spoke out against enslavement.
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Antiracist (adjective)
Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention held on 21 and 22 August 1850
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Racist (adjective)
Definition:
Believing or acting as if one racial group is superior to another.
Example:
Cadwallader Colden, John Cantine, and James Clinton all demonstrated this action when they chose to enslave human beings in Ulster County.
John Cantine
James Clinton
Cadwallader Colden
Governor of the Province of NY and Enslaver. Coldenham is named for him
Racist Policy (noun)
Definition
Any rule or law that creates or keeps inequity between racial groups.
EXAMPLE:
In 1702, the Province of New York’s Assembly passed a law that kept enslavement legal, banned enslaved people from meeting in groups of 3 or more, and allowed enslavers to punish enslaved people as they saw fit.
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Definition:
African Americans who bravely risked their lives to escape from enslavement.
Example:
A man named William chose to escape from enslavement in New Paltz in 1783.
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Freedom Seeker (noun)
Definition:
A network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to the North. It was not an actual underground train.
Example:
Franklin Street AME Zion Church in Kingston was connected to the Underground Railroad. One of its Pastors, the Reverend Jeremiah R.B. Smith fought end slavery by writing in antislavery newspapers and fighting in the Civil War.
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Underground Railroad (noun)
Franklin Street AME Zion Church, Kingston
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Definition:
Someone who stands with or advocates for individuals and groups other than their own.
Example:
Brothers Edward Hallock Ketcham and John Ketcham and their cousin, Nehemiah Hallock Mann, of Milton, Ulster County chose to fight for the Union in the Civil War to help end slavery.
Ally (noun)
Gathering, Using, &
Interpreting Evidence
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
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SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
Jigsaw
SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
Jigsaw 1:
Jigsaw 2:
SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
AME Zion Church Rochester, NY
St. James AME Zion Church Ithaca, NY
First AME Church in Syracuse, NY
Franklin Street AME Zion Church, Kingston
Jigsaw 3:
SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
Cadwallader Colden
Governor of the Province of NY and Enslaver. Coldenham is named for him
Jigsaw 4:
SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
William Hamilton
In your Table Group, discuss your answers to these questions.
(These were the last questions in every Jigsaw Reading.)
Final Questions
SECTION THREE: SOURCE ANALYSIS
I can investigate how Black people and their allies resisted the horrible conditions of enslavement?
Learning Target
SEL: Optimistic Closure
Use a sticky note to write down one person you learned about today that you don’t want to forget or who inspires you to take action, to get in the way, to get in good trouble, necessary trouble and help make the world a better place.
“Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble...good trouble, necessary trouble.”
-John Lewis
Mural of John Lewis in Downtown Rochester by Ephraim Gebre, Darius Dennis, Jared Diaz, and Dan Harrington
SEL: Optimistic Closure
What zone are you in? Share with a friend about someone who inspires you?
SEL: Optimistic Closure
“Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble...good trouble, necessary trouble.”
-John Lewis
SEL: Optimistic Closure
SEL: Optimistic Closure
Zones of Regulation What zone are you in? | |||
Blue Zone | Green Zone | Yellow Zone | Red Zone |
Bored | Happy | Excited | Upset |
Tired | Positive | Worried | Angry |
Sad | Thankful | Nervous | Aggressive |
Depressed | Proud | Confused | Mad |
Shy | Calm | Embarrassed | Terrified |