The document provides instructions for a lesson asking students to: 1) Read pages 393-397 of their textbook about enslaved people in the South. 2) Answer guided reading questions by writing responses on folded paper that will be cut into strips and linked together to form a chain. 3) The questions probe how slaves lived, preserved family and culture, and the role of religion, as well as slave codes, rebellions and escapes, and urbanization's impact in the mid-1800s South.

1. CHAPTER 14, LESSON 4
ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH (PAGES 393-397)

2. GUIDED READING RESPONSE CHAIN
IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT,
STUDENTS WILL
• READ PAGES 393-397
• ANSWER GUIDED QUESTIONS FROM THE READING
• ANSWERS WILL BE CUT INTO STRIPS AND TAPED
TOGETHER TO FORM A CHAIN
• CHAIN WILL BE LINKED TO HANDS (PART 2 OF PROJECT)

3. Describe the lives of enslaved African
Americans
What was family life like for an enslaved
family?
How did slaves attempt to preserve their
culture?
In what ways was religion part of slave
culture?
Fold an 8½ x 11 sheet of
paper in half
(lengthways) and then in
half again. You should
have four sections.
For each section write
what you see to the
right.
On the back of that
section, answer or
respond to the prompt.
You can take bulleted
notes, but be thorough.
The sections will be cut
11
8½

4. What were slave codes and why were they so
harsh?
Describe Nat Turner’s slave rebellion.
In what ways (and why) did slaves attempt to
escape?
What changes did urbanization introduced in
the South by the mid-1800’s?
Fold an 8½ x 11 sheet of
paper in half
(lengthways) and then in
half again. You should
have four sections.
For each section write
what you see to the
right.
On the back of that
section, answer or
respond to the prompt.
You can take bulleted
notes, but be thorough.
The sections will be cut
11
8½

5. Describethelivesof
enslavedAfricanAmericans
Whatwasfamilylifelikefor
anenslavedfamily?
Howdidslavesattemptto
preservetheirculture?
Inwhatwayswasreligion
partofslaveculture?
Whatwereslavecodesand
whyweretheysoharsh?
DescribeNatTurner’sslave
rebellion.
Inwhatways(andwhy)did
slavesattempttoescape?
Whatchangesdidurbanization
introducedintheSouthbythemid-
1800’s?
The two pages side by
side.

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Describe the lives of enslaved African
Americans
What was family life like for an enslaved
family?
How did slaves attempt to preserve their
culture?
In what ways was religion part of slave
culture?
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7. Describe the lives of enslaved African
Americans
What was family life like for an enslaved
family?
How did slaves attempt to preserve their
culture?
In what ways was religion part of slave
culture?
Then, they will be cut into
strips…