Have students create a spider map to define and illustrate new vocabulary from Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker.
Storyboard Text
PLANTATION
QUAKER
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Canada
An estate on which crops such as cotton, coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by those who are on the property.
A Quaker is a member of a religious group called the Religious Society of Friends. They are devoted to peaceful principals.
A system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the United States prior to 1863, through which escaping enslaved people were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada.