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Taken at face value the drinking gourd refers to the hollowed out gourd. We learned about stars and the Drinking Gourd.
While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper.
Follow the drinking gourd book. Follow the Drinking Gourd is a book about historical fiction written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter. The intended age group for this book is primary intermediate. Ages birth eight years old.
This book is about slavery and the Underground Railroad. Follow the Drinking Gourd tells a story about the Underground Railroad. The sailor Peg Leg Joe does his best to free the slaves by teaching them a song about the drinking gourd in other words the Big Dipper.
Peg Leg Joes plan was to teach each of the slaves working on the plantation the song that would show them the way to freedom. Once the song was learned he would move to another. Follow the Drinking Gourd Paperback by Jeanette Winter a great story of following directions.
If you look at its simplest form. Looking through the lenses of history this book has a lot of appeal it brings to the for front the movement of the underground rail road and makes it into a story of a single family. This book is a great jumping point for looking into history.
The song and the lyrics are a way to connect to. Follow the Drinking Gourd. An Underground Railroad Story by Cari Meister Adapter Robert Squier IllustratorFollow the Drinking Gourd is an American folk.
Learn about the underground railroad and sing along with Mrs. Enders at the end. Follow the Drinking Gourd is a book featured in Five in a Row a literature-based unit study curriculum.
Many families use FIAR for all but the grammarreading and math and others use it. The American folksong Follow the Drinking Gourd was first published in 1928. The Drinking Gourd song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map.
These directions then enabled fleeing slaves to make their way north from Mobile Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom. Taken at face value the drinking gourd refers to the hollowed out gourd. According to American folklore this song was a musical map which led fugitive slaves north to freedom.
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- Topic Super Why Official Reading. Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter January 15 1992 Dragonfly Books edition Paperback in English. About Follow the Drinking Gourd.
Winters story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper. A couple their son and two others make their escape by following the songs directions.
Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a. We rowed Follow the Drinking Gourd. We looked at some books.
We learned about stars and the Drinking Gourd. Another name for the Drinking Gourd is the Big Dipper. We made star cupcakes.
We learned about the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is a trail of houses that leads the slaves to freedom Malachi For Social Studies we touched on slavery and using the text from the. Follow the Drinkin Gourd A Class Book by ____ Page 2 When the sun comes back and the first quail calls Follow the Drinkin Gourd.
Page 3 Then the Old Man is a waitin for to carry you to freedom Follow the Drinkin Gourd Page 4 Follow the Drinkin Gourd Follow the Drinkin Gourd. Page 5 For the Old Man is a waitin for to carry you to freedom Follow the Drinking Gourd. We also continued to emphasize the code that they used.
The kiddos loved this. There was a code to tell someone you were there the hoo hoo of an owl. There were codes in the songs.
We talked about Wade in the Water so the dogs wont catch your scent and of course Follow the Drinking Gourd. We talked about code words for run and travel there was a group about ready to leave and home being. Follow the Drinking Gourd Jeanette Winter Author Alfred A.
Knopf Books for Young Readers 1799 48p ISBN 978-0-394-89694-6 More By and About This Author Before the Civil War Peg Leg Joe.