This collection was created for my 8th grade students to use prior to viewing the 2003 HBO Documentary Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. My goal is for the students to expand their knowledge of slavery and its brutality. Using the Think-See-Wonder strategy, students will first view the photograph of Gordon. They will then compare and contrast it with the woodcut image from Harper's Weekly. Other images in the collection complement the documentary. 

I have included a link to the Library of Congress that explains the history of the Slave Narratives as well as a Teacher's Guide to the HBO documentary.

While viewing the documentary, the students will take notes on the worksheet provided. As a culminating activity, the students will use their notes and each create a one minute oral history for Gordon.

This collection was created in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery's 2019 Learning to Look Summer Institute. 

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