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American Memories, Slavery Social Studies, History

Web Resources with Adobe Acrobat Northern Valley Regional High School

Demarest, New Jersey

Stepney Underwood, an ex-slave who tells his story on Smithsonian's remembering Slavery.

http://www.current.org/rad/rad816s.html

American Memories, Slavery

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Contents Page

1. Teacher Statement

2. Course Overview

• Course Objectives and Course goals • State Standards • Hardware specifications • Adobe software list • Training Resource

3. Research Resources Bibliography

4. Lesson Plan Table

5. Detailed Lesson Plans Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 5 6. Handout, Assignment Review Form

7. Tutorials (See Separate Tutorial Files)


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Teacher’s Statement Northern Valley Regional High School

Demarest, NJ

The American memory courses developed by the Social Studies faculty at Northern Valley Regional High School began when Media Specialist, Janice Cooper, attended Library of Congress Resources training as a part of an education grant, and suggested an approach to expanding the use of technology in the classroom by making use of Library of Congress resources.

Technology Integration Specialist Steve Adler worked with Bill Tinnie set up training and assisted teachers in the use of Adobe Acrobat to as a web research and project tool.

In the Course on Slavery, Students will study the history of slavery by preparing for a slave auction. They will do research on the Library of Congress American Memories site to find information on slave auctions. They will need information on prices, skills of slaves and other pertinent facts in order to prepare posters for a slave auction.

After completing this aspect of the assignment the students will then view photos of slaves, their homes, graves and primary source documents on slave life. This will be followed by listening to 2 or 3 slave narratives or reading excerpts form interviews to find out from the slaves themselves what life was like. Students will then write an editorial critical of the Slave Auctions from the abolitionist point of view, citing the information that they have researched.

Learning Systems Integrators Bill Tinnie and Steve Adler

With Social Studies Teacher, Alexandra Drazulowsky


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Course Overview Overview Students will study American Memory images on slavery and will learn to use images to evaluate their relevance to this lesson on Slavery. - Students will view selected items from the American Memory collection such as photos of slaves, their houses, graves and documents of ownership and sale. - They will read excerpts from interviews conducted during the Great Depression. - They will also listen to the slave narratives to hear what life was really like for the slaves.

National Education Technology Standards 9-12

IV. Individual Development and Identity

V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions

VI. Power, Authority, Governance

X. Civic Ideals and Practices

NETS Performance Indicators 5. Us technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information.

7. Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications and productivity.

10. Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce and disseminate information, models, and other creative work.

New Jersey State Standards

NJ Core content Curriculum Standards: 6.3:9-14, 6.4:10-14 http://www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/

Technology Specifications

Hardware

- Standard desktop computers - Internet Access - On-line Video viewing: Broadband Internet service :(e.g., cable modem, DSL or other 300kbs connection). Software

- Adobe® Acrobat™ - (Flash 5 required for the Rich-media)

Training Resources

http://www.adobe.com/education/curriculum/acrobat_curriculum.html


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Research Resources Bibliography Library of Congress: Abolition http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html

American Memory Collections: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html Echoes from a Pioneer Life Jared Arter http://docsouth.unc.edu/arter/arter.html Narrative of Henry Watson A Fugitive Slave. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage William P, Hogue Ex-slave narrative. http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=13920 Tap and Susie Hawkins, Ex-slave Narrative http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=13917

Slave Interviews http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html C-span slave interview audio files http://www.c-span.org/antietam/narratives.asp

Smithsonian's Remembering Slavery. http://www.current.org/rad/rad816s.html COPYRIGHTS AND OTHER RIGHTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES by Jeremy Rowe © jeremy rowe 2002 http://www.vintagephoto.com/reference/copyrightarticle1.htm


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One Page Lesson Plan Table ( Lesson Summarize each lesson and include URLs and reading materials for

each lesson Handouts and URL’s Tutorials

1. Students will prepare for a slave auction. They will research on the American Memories site information on slave auctions in order to prepare posters for an upcoming slave auction. They will need information on prices, skills of slaves and other pertinent facts.

Handout 3 Evaluation Form

Tutorials 1 Working with the Web Tutorial 3 Working with Images

2. Prepare Posters for a Slave Auction with information on prices, skills, sex and physical condition of those to be sold.

See Detailed Lesson Plan 2 Tutorial 4 Creating a Photoshop Layout

3. Students will view photos of slaves their homes, graves and primary source documents on slave life.

See Detailed Lesson Plan 3 Handout 1 ‘KWI’ notation sheet.

Tutorial 2 Creating Acrobat Bookmarks

4. Listen to 2 or 3 slave narratives or reading excerpts form interviews to find out from the slaves themselves what life was like.

Handout 2 “TIP” Notation Sheet

5. Write an editorial from the abolitionist point of view that is critical of the Slave Auctions citing the information that they researched.

See Detailed Lesson Plan 5


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Detailed Lesson Plans (continued) Lesson 2

When preparing Slave Sale Posters, work with type libraries available in your word processing program to select type styles that reflect the type used during the period when possible.

Type Fonts:

Impact:

This font has the blockiness and density that sometimes characterizes type of that time.

Swiss911XCm BT: This is a bold face with narrower letter forms but with the same dense appearance.

Poster Bodini: This font was intended to be easily read in poster design.

NOTE:

Phrases in italics were used on posters of that era for emphasis.

Headings were sometimes underlined with decorative underscore patterns.

Lesson 3

Photos of slaves their homes, graves and primary source documents on slave life can be compiles for reports and other assignments. Use the instructions in Tutorial 3 to review the use of images in an Acrobat document. Be aware of copyright issues associated with images from various on-line sources. If these images are used strictly for education projects, copyright issues usually do not apply. However, if any portion of such a project is ever published commercially or sold as an original written work or art work, copyright infringements will apply.

Lesson 5

When compiling and working with images, it is important to understand the fair use of images created by others. Review copyright laws governing the use of images by Jeremy Rowe: Copyrights And Other Rights In Photographic Images by Jeremy Rowe ©jeremy rowe 2002 http://www.vintagephoto.com/reference/copyrightarticle1.htm


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FORMS AND HANDOUTS

1. ‘KWI’ notation sheet. As they view the photographs, students fill out a sheet which asks them a) What they know about the photo b) What they want to know c) What impressions they have of the photo 2. ‘TIP’ notation sheet. As students read the 1942 news articles and oral histories they note Tone, Information, and Point of View of the source. 3. Assignment Review Form This form is for tracking progress on each component of the assignment and to determine final grade based on Education

Standards and/or Rubrics


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“KWI” Notation Sheet Photograph What I know What I want to know Impressions of photo


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“TIP” Notation Sheet Oral History Article Tone Information Point of View


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Assignment Review Form

Course Name______________________________________________________________________________

Lesson #__________________________________________________________________________________

Assignment_______________________________________________________________________________

Student Name_____________________________________________________________________________

Objectives Activities Materials/resources Assessment


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Tutorials See Separate Acrobat Tutorial Files

Tutorial 1, Working with the Web, Lesson 8 Tutorial 2, Making Acrobat Bookmarks, Lesson 3 Tutorial 3, Working with Images, Lesson 7

Or Go To http://www.adobe.com/education/curriculum/acrobat_curriculum.html

Tutorial 4, Creating a Photoshop Layout

Training Resources

www.adobe.com/education

Tutorial 4American Memories, Slavery

Creating an Adobe Photoshop Layout

Step 1.

Open Photoshop and select File, New.

In the Dialogue Box (window) select Inches, and create a horizontal page with the following dimensions:

Width 11, Height 8.5, Resolution 72

Step 2.

For the Slave Poster it is important to select a Type Font that reflects the printing of the time.

- Select the Type Tool, click on the blank Poster and type a Headline advertising a Slave Auction.

- Highlight the Headline, Pull Down the Edit Menu and choose Copy

- Reposition the Type Cursor, Pull Down the Edit Menu and choose Paste

- Repeat several times to create several copies of the same Headline.

Step 3.

Highlight each Headline, Scroll through the Type Menu in the Menu Bar and choose different Fonts for each copy of the Headline. Type the name of the Font at the end of each Headline so you will remember it.

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Step 4.

When you have decided what Fonts to use, Open a New File and select the size you wish to use for your Poster.

- Select the Type Tool and type the Headline for the Poster.

- Select the Move Tool.

TOP ON RIGHT CORNER OF TOOLBOX

- Move the Headline into place.

NOTE: Pull Down the Windows Menu and select Layers Window

Note that each new line of type appears on a new layer.

To move a line of type you must select the Layer on which the type appears in the Layers window.

Step 5.

When all layers of type have been aligned, you can change certain Type to Italic or Bold, use underlines or add decorative elements that can be found in symbols and dingbats fonts to add emphasis as was done in printed materials of the time.

- To change Type to Italic, Highlight the Type and select Italic from the Type Styles Menu.

NOTE: Some Type does not allow for conversion to Italic or other styles.

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Step 6.

You can also scan images or save images from the internet and copy them into the document.

NOTE: Each image will appear on its own Layer and that Layer must be selected if you wish to reposition the image.

- Open the Image File and select the area you want to use on the Poster using the Marquee Selection Tool which is a rectangular selection tool or one of the other Selection Tools, Top on the Left of the Tool Box.

- Pull Down the Edit Menu and Choose Copy.

- Move to the Poster File.

- Pull Down the Edit Menu and Select Paste.

- Go to the Move Tool, Top on the Right of Tool Box.

- Click on the Image and Move it into the correct position on the poster.

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