Sequencing+Activities

1. Sequencing wheel - link: [] This is a great activity to sequence the events in //The Legend of Old Abe A Civil War Eagle// by Kathy-jo Wargin! After we read the book, the students will list important events that happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Once they have finished this, I will have them pick the 7 most important events. Then, each student will be given a sequencing wheel. In this wheel, they have to write about and illustrate the events in each of the seven wheel wedges.

2. Sequencing Story: After studying the Underground Railroad, students will write a journal that sequences the order in which a slave must escape on the Underground Railroad. Each student's journal entry must include at least six steps all in the correct order. I expect that each student will have something written about: finding out about the Underground Railroad, remembering songs that have secret codes in the lyrics, leaving their owner's plantation, looking for houses with swinging lanterns, hiding from slave hunters, and reaching freedom in the North. Once the students have written their entries, they will be edited, re-written, and hung in the classroom.

3. Sequencing Graphic Organizer - link: [] While reading the chapter book, //Dear Austin Letters from the Underground Railroad // by Elvira Woodruff, the students will use the sequencing graphic organizer. It can be used for just one chapter, or multiple ones at a time. Either way, the students must sequence four events that they read about in their book.