Lesson

• Start by reading a biography of Harriet Tubman's life at http://www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm.

• Create an illustrated time line that shows what happened during each of the time periods given below. You can find more photographs at http://www.harriettubman.com to help you picture what she looked like.
  
  

  1820–1829:

  1832:

  1844–1848:

  1849–1850:

  1851–1857:

  1857:

  1861–1864:

  1865–1900:

  1908:

  1913:

• Harriet Tubman was called the "Moses" of the Underground Railroad. She was being compared to the biblical Moses, who lived in ancient Egypt and led his people, who were slaves of the Pharoah, to freedom. Read more about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad at http://camalott.com/~rssmith/Moses.html and at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html. Was Harriet Tubman like Moses? In what ways?

Kids Read This!
When you click on the Web site links, you will be leaving Scholastic.com Every Web site that we link to was reviewed by our team. But sites change and many sites have links to other sites which we have not reviewed. Be sure to get permission from your parents or teacher before leaving this site and remember the surf-safe mantra: never give out your full name or other personal information online. You wouldn't tell a stranger this information, and you shouldn't tell it to someone online either!

Teacher Notes
Objectives

Time: 1–2 class sessions