Slavery Unit Plan

Slavery Unit Plan

For my Human Relations class, I'm putting together a unit plan on slavery in the United States. Feel free to use my resources.... most of the lesson plans have been taken from other peoples lesson plans, though I try to be as original as possible. Sometimes the student benefit from stimulating activities that I can go conger from other teachers lesson plans.

Here are some of the links I've visited thus far.
Slavery Lesson Plans for all ages: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/lesson1c.html
Great activity for all ages: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/p_lesson1_org1.html

Maps I've used

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A Wee Bit Obsessed

So I was trying to find new wallpapers for my phone. You know, find a picture, take a picture shazam... anyways, I thought I would share these wonderful picture with all of you Marie Antoinette lovers out there.

I was not thrilled to see the movie in the theatres, but my mother dragged me anyways because her favorite genre of movies is 18th century (Pride and Predjudice, Sense and Sensibility, Tom Jones). Don;t get me wrong I positively love Kristen Dunst, but not too fancy on 18th century movies. But, I did go, and fell in love.

Now I really enjoy reading about her as well. The book I own....

Marie Antoinette- Antonia Fraser

Half Price Books- $6.00

I remember watching the movie and liking it a lot. When I took a Native America History in college, I remember stating that Marie Antoinette was my favorite historical person during our introduction... the teacher just kind of laughed at me....

Mr. Darcy Vampyre Book Review

I’ve been an avid reader almost since I was able to read. I absolutely fell in love with books right about the time I hit junior high. Since it was required to read a lot in high school, I fell off the band wagon for a couple years with personal reads. College came around, well really, Twilight came around and that’s when I really got back into the whole “read for yourself for your personal enjoyment.” The whole vampire scene really got me back into books, and since then I’ve been reading almost anything I can get my hands on. I’ve read the whole Twilight saga, most Anne Rice, and now I’m stuck on Mary Janice Davidson’s Undead and Unwed collection. Mr. Darcy Vampyre was a great find for me. Jane Austin has always been a classic, especially when it comes to Pride and Prejudice.

My mother and I have always shared our books, and when she dropped off Mr. Darcy Vampyre, I was more than excited to dive into the love on Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett once again. I rolled through this book pretty fast, it had a lot of anticipation to go along with it. The book starts off at the honeymoon of Mr. Darcy and Mrs. Darcy. They are off to start their life together, but first take a trip to France and for so much needed sightseeing. Most of their time together shows Darcy as a cold-hearted, disagreeable man. At some point Elizabeth even questions whether or not is was the right decision to marry him. His interest in her plays down on his love and affection for Elizabeth.

Throughout the entirety of their honeymoon, while Mr. Darcy has basically ignored his bride, the marriage is still unconsummated. Elizabeth starts to worry, until the truth is finally revealed. The climax doesn’t begin until the last fifty pages of the book. The other 270 were basically just drawn and played out in a very dull fashion.

Overall, I was disappointed in Mr. Darcy Vampyre. It may be that I had different intentions for the book, and was dissatisfied that they played Darcy out to be this disagreeable man that readers were already over within the original Pride and Prejudice. I look forward to reading other author’s interpretation of Pride and Prejudice with a vampire twist.