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TEACHER GUIDE 1 2012 SI ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDT eaching the Book Henry dreams of freedom from slavery and injustice. When his family is sold away from him, he risks everything to do what he knows is right. He mails himself to freedom! This Caldecott Honor Book gives students the opportunity to make connections between the text and the illustrations in this power-ful true story. Activities engage students in writing a short play based on the book, tracing Henry s route on Google Earth, and learning how to follow the Drinking Gourd. Subject Focus: Underground RailroadComprehension Focus: Make Connections Be-tween Text and IllustrationsLanguage Focus: Academic and Domain-Specific VocabularyBook SummaryHenry Brown doesn t know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market.

RI.4.7 W.4.3 SL.4.1 L.4.6 Grade 5 RI.5.1, RI.5.4, RI.5.7 W.5.3 SL.5.1 L.5.6 This book is not paginated. The first page of the story in the eBook is considered page 1 for page reference purposes. tained the stories of all the runaway slaves who came through Still’s Anti-Slavery Society office in Philadelphia,” says Ellen. “I was awed by ...

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