This document provides instructions and materials for students to write a journal entry from the perspective of someone who sailed on a slave ship. It includes vocabulary related to slave ships, homework on a slave revolt, and questions to guide students in writing a descriptive journal entry about the crowded and traumatic experience of being on a slave ship.

1. What is a better way
to learn history –
looking at a first
person account or
reading an overview
written by a historian?

2. Objective:
 Students will
synthesize their
knowledge of
the slave ship by
creating a
possible journal
entry of
someone who
sailed on a slave
ship

3. Homework:
Reading
The Slaves
Revolt in
South
Carolina in
1739

4. Vocabulary - Diary
Ifound her
diary
underneath
a tree, and
started
reading
about me

5. Review: Loose pack
If you can
lie on your
back, the
ship is
loaded
loose pack

6. Review: Tight Pack
Tight pack
means
pack them
in as tight
as
possible

7. Watch the clip and take
notes
 What would you
have heard?
 What would you
have smelled?
 What would you
have felt?
 How would you
have felt?

8. Describe how crowded it is (loose
/ tight) but do not use those terms!

9. Describe the people around
you. Are they like you? Are they
alive?

10. Did you go on deck? What
happened there? What was it
like?

11. Class work:
 Write the diary /
journal entry
 It must be
descriptive
 It must be in
proper English
 It must be
legible

12. Exit Ticket:
What is a
diary?