Reading Freedom Train

   Ms. Branks was nice enough to set up a book study group for myself and some of the young ladies in her class.  It's great because I'm lucky enough to get to work with a small group of 6th grade readers.  The book we are reading is The Story of Harriet Tubman, Freedom Train and was written by Dorthy Sterling.  I showed the group a few books and this was the one they picked out, much to the delight of their regular classroom teacher, Ms. Brank.  It was a great choice for many reasons, not the least of them being it's currently February, Black History Month.

Just a quick shot of  some of the students, from left to right, Janese, Seirra, Taylor, and Camryn,  around the table, a wonderful group of young ladies reading books!

A first video of comments about the book so far.  Everyone is into the book so far and the discussions are going well.  A lot of new vocabulary and concepts are being learned as a result of reading the book.


I'm just getting started with this page so more is on the way as the group reads through the selection.
                                                                           
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The pictures below are shots of a quick project the ladies made to decorate my door.

The students wrote some facts about H. Tubman and  found some pictures on the internet.  We mounted the items on black paper and then glued them onto a long piece of paper which we taped onto the door.

Here's a shot of some of the students standing by the door they decorated so nicely. I'll go do some closeups of the door so you can see the details.  Below are some shots of individual students holding up the books we're reading.

Ms. Janese                                                

Ms. Seirra

Ms. Taylor

Ms. Camryn

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The Story of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Train

The story of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Train meant to me was that the harder you work the more rewards you can earn. The story of Harriet Tubman was inspiring true story of Harriet Tubman and how she freed slaves and took them to freedom using the Underground Railroad. People will look back to Harriet Tubman as a hero in history. So Harriet Tubman will always be remembered for generations to come and to be passed on forever!!!!!

 Janese  did a great job participating int the reading group and this is a short paragraph she wrote about the book.

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Freedom Train

By: Camryn Hamilton

Freedom train is  an uplifting story about Harriet Tubman. Harriet was a very brave woman who knew her rights. Harriet Tubman is remembered today  for her brave duty’s she did for our country.Harriet Tubman is remembered today  for her brave duty’s she did for our country. Harriet had harsh life ALL her life! From the day she was born till the day she passed.

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The story about Harriet Tubman: Freedom Train                                                                                                                                                                       

The story freedom train about Harriet Tubman is a very good book to me.I like this book and how she was born a slave and died a free woman. I also like how she freed almost 400 slaves and one thing that I don’t like about slave time is that Harriet Tubman was wanted dead or alive .She was a good woman and helped so many people out of slavery. This book was a good book and it was sad and happy at the same time. The saddest part of the book was when she died because she helped so many people.

The above paragraph was written by Seirra.

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The shots below are some students just starting to make etchings with the intent to make some pins and pendants.  

The above shots are the students painting with tar on small pieces of brass, nickel-silver, or copper.  They did small preparatory sketches and here they are painting directly with the thinned out tar on to the metal.  The tar will resist the mild acid and the background will be etched.