Story Summary:

Julilly is a young girl and a slave. She lives on a cotton plantation in Virginia until she's sold and taken to Mississippi, where the food is scarce, and the slave boss is very mean. She befriends Liza, a girl who is badly crippled from her beatings, and the two decide to escape to a country they've heard about where slaves are free: Canada. When a white man from Canada arrives and secretly gives them information about how to make the trip, the plan is sealed. 

Learning Expectations: The students will:

• develop their skills in reading, writing, listening, and oral communication
  use good literature as a vehicle for developing skills required by curriculum expectations: reasoning and critical thinking, knowledge of language structure, vocabulary building, and use of conventions
• become meaningfully engaged in the drama of literature through a variety of types of questions and activities
• identify and describe elements of stories (e.g., plot, main idea, characters, setting)
• learn and review many skills to develop good reading habits
• provide clear answers to questions and well-constructed explanations
• organize and classify information to clarify thinking
• learn about the history of slavery in the United States
• learn about the abstract concepts of prejudice, terror, injustice, kindness, pride, and courage
• relate events and feelings found in novels to their own lives and experiences
• appreciate the importance of friendship and loyalty in personal relationships
• learn the importance of dealing with adversity and developing perseverance in the face of adversity
• state their own interpretation of a written work, using evidence from the work and from their own knowledge and experience
• learn to accept and understand the horrors of slavery, the range of human behaviors from good to evil, and the importance of self-esteem 

Introduction Includes: 

Teacher Notes:

• At A GlanceTM                 
• Overall Expectations
• Teacher Suggestions
• List of Activities 

Synopsis and Author Biography

Student Checklist 

Chapter Questions:

Includes:

• Student Booklet Cover
• Chapter Activities One to Nineteen
• Answer Key 

The student booklet focuses for the most part on one chapter of the novel at a time.

Each of the sections contains the following activities: 

1. a) Before you read the chapter (reasoning and critical thinking skills)
2. b) Vocabulary (dictionary and thesaurus skills)
3. c) Questions (reading comprehension skills)
4. d) Language Activities (grammar, punctuation, and word structure) 

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