Summative Assessment
Essential Question: How do oppressed people empower themselves to achieve freedom?
Read Aloud – Ruth and the Green Book
Summary: When Ruth and her parents take a road trip from Chicago to Alabama in 1952, they use “The Negro Motorist Green Book” to find diners, inns, and gas stations that will serve them.
References
Ramsey, C.A. (2010). Ruth and the green book. Minneapolis, MN: Carolhoda Books.
Assessment Projects
Apply your knowledge of the Underground Railroad to recognize what is the same and different for African Americans traveling across the country nearly 100 years after slavery was abolished.
From the list below, pick three projects to complete that are of interest to you.
Read Aloud – Ruth and the Green Book
Summary: When Ruth and her parents take a road trip from Chicago to Alabama in 1952, they use “The Negro Motorist Green Book” to find diners, inns, and gas stations that will serve them.
References
Ramsey, C.A. (2010). Ruth and the green book. Minneapolis, MN: Carolhoda Books.
Assessment Projects
Apply your knowledge of the Underground Railroad to recognize what is the same and different for African Americans traveling across the country nearly 100 years after slavery was abolished.
From the list below, pick three projects to complete that are of interest to you.
- Regions
- On a blank US map, chart Ruth's road trip from Chicago to Alabama
- Next, draw the Underground Railroad trail that corresponds to Ruth's route, using the National Park Service Underground Railroad map as a reference
- On a separate sheet of paper, describe in two paragraphs whether these geographical regions have become more welcoming communities to traveling African Americans in the 20th Century, supporting your writing with evidence from the books we have read
- On a blank US map, chart Ruth's road trip from Chicago to Alabama
- Tools
- Create a Venn diagram that depicts how the “The Negro Motorist Green Book” is both similar to and different from the Underground Railroad quilts and songs
- In an accompanying two paragraphs, explain
- what information is represented in each resource
- why these resources were needed by traveling African Americans
- what information is represented in each resource
- Create a Venn diagram that depicts how the “The Negro Motorist Green Book” is both similar to and different from the Underground Railroad quilts and songs
- People
- Pick one character from Ruth and the Green Book and explain in three paragraphs how that person is a 20th Century Underground Railroad conductor
- Support your essay with examples from three Underground Railroad conductors
- Pick one character from Ruth and the Green Book and explain in three paragraphs how that person is a 20th Century Underground Railroad conductor
- Communication
- Using the metaphors and melodic elements of “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, compose the music and lyrics for a signal song that explains how traveling African Americans may use the “The Negro Motorist Green Book”
- In an accompanying paragraph, explain how your signal song would be learned and shared with traveling African Americans, relating this method to the ways enslaved people learned Underground Railroad signal songs
- Using the metaphors and melodic elements of “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, compose the music and lyrics for a signal song that explains how traveling African Americans may use the “The Negro Motorist Green Book”
- Choices
- Imagine you are Ruth and write a letter to one of the heroines of the other books we have read – Clara, Lucy, or the anonymous girl in Under the Quilt of the Night
- In three paragraphs, describe in your letter
- how traveling along the Green Book route is similar to traveling along Underground Railroad
- how traveling along the Green Book route is different than traveling along Underground Railroad
- whether the dreams of freedom imagined by the Underground Railroad heroines have been realized by 1952
- how traveling along the Green Book route is similar to traveling along Underground Railroad
- Imagine you are Ruth and write a letter to one of the heroines of the other books we have read – Clara, Lucy, or the anonymous girl in Under the Quilt of the Night