Chapter One: Seeds of Hope
Do you like gardening?
If you had the chance to ask God one question, what would you ask?
Chapter Two: Hope and Determination
What do you pray for?
Molasses Cookies
Do you find it hard to get along with someone?
Why do you think Harriet is so mean?
Chapter Three: Healing
Compare Addy’s fair with fairs you’ve visited.
What is your favorite thing about fairs?
Has anyone in your family died? How do you think Harriet feels?
Chapter Four: All for One
Do you think Harriet, Sarah and Addy can get along now? Why?
How did all three girls help stop the thief? Could any of them do it alone?
Have you been happy to find someone?
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Showing posts with label Addy. Show all posts
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Happy Birthday, Addy!
Chapter One: Double Dutch
Learn to play it!
Was freedom fair for former slaves?
Why do you think it took so long for blacks to have true freedom?
Chapter Two: Sunshine
Do you ever feel lonely?
What’s the best day you’ve had?
If you could pick any day for your birthday, what would it be? Why?
Do you have an older friend like M’Dear?
Why do you think Northern whites were mean to colored people?
Chapter Three: Bitter Medicine
Benne Candy
1 cup sesame seeds
1 (1-pound) box light brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon white vinegar
Heavily butter an 11 by 2-inch pyrex baking dish.
Wash sesame seeds and remove any debris that may be in the seeds and drain well. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium high heat until a drop of water bounces around the skillet. Pour seeds into skillet and stir constantly. Dry and parch seeds until light brown, approximately 2 minutes. Do not burn seeds.
In a heavy saucepan, combine and melt the sugar, butter, milk and vinegar. Using a wooden spoon, stir constantly until ingredients are dissolved. Cook over medium high heat to light crack stage. If using a candy thermometer, the temperature should be between 265 and 285 degrees F. Once it reaches the desired temperature, remove from heat and beat in the sesame seeds with your spoon. Pour immediately into prepared dish. Score candy while still warm and cut into squares when cool.
Should Addy and Sarah ride a streetcar without permission?
What bitter medicine did Addy swallow?
Chapter Four: Brotherly Love
What challenges do you sing through?
Chapter Five: Changes in the Wind
What changes do you think the end of the war will bring?
Looking Back
Learn “Sally Walker” and “Ring Around the Rosie”
Learn to play it!
Was freedom fair for former slaves?
Why do you think it took so long for blacks to have true freedom?
Chapter Two: Sunshine
Do you ever feel lonely?
What’s the best day you’ve had?
If you could pick any day for your birthday, what would it be? Why?
Do you have an older friend like M’Dear?
Why do you think Northern whites were mean to colored people?
Chapter Three: Bitter Medicine
Benne Candy
1 cup sesame seeds
1 (1-pound) box light brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon white vinegar
Heavily butter an 11 by 2-inch pyrex baking dish.
Wash sesame seeds and remove any debris that may be in the seeds and drain well. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium high heat until a drop of water bounces around the skillet. Pour seeds into skillet and stir constantly. Dry and parch seeds until light brown, approximately 2 minutes. Do not burn seeds.
In a heavy saucepan, combine and melt the sugar, butter, milk and vinegar. Using a wooden spoon, stir constantly until ingredients are dissolved. Cook over medium high heat to light crack stage. If using a candy thermometer, the temperature should be between 265 and 285 degrees F. Once it reaches the desired temperature, remove from heat and beat in the sesame seeds with your spoon. Pour immediately into prepared dish. Score candy while still warm and cut into squares when cool.
Should Addy and Sarah ride a streetcar without permission?
What bitter medicine did Addy swallow?
Chapter Four: Brotherly Love
What challenges do you sing through?
Chapter Five: Changes in the Wind
What changes do you think the end of the war will bring?
Looking Back
Learn “Sally Walker” and “Ring Around the Rosie”
Addy's Surprise
Chapter One: Winds of Winter
Could you imagine not knowing where half of your family was?
How does your church decorate for Christmas?
What songs do you sing at Christmas?
If you don’t already know it, learn to sing “Joy to the World”
Chapter Two: Something Pretty
Do you like secondhand shops?
What surprises have you saved for?
Chapter Three: Freedom Ain’t Free
How do you help others?
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Chapter Four: The Cost of Freedom
Every girl should learn to stitch a hem. Ask your mother, grandmother or another woman to teach you.
Why do you think Mrs. Ford let Addy stay downstairs?
Chapter Five: Christmas Surprises
Why do you think some people are rude at Christmas?
What foods are part of your Christmas celebration?
Have you ever welcomed someone home, who you feared you’d never see again?
Looking Back
Do you celebrate Kwanzaa?
Could you imagine not knowing where half of your family was?
How does your church decorate for Christmas?
What songs do you sing at Christmas?
If you don’t already know it, learn to sing “Joy to the World”
Chapter Two: Something Pretty
Do you like secondhand shops?
What surprises have you saved for?
Chapter Three: Freedom Ain’t Free
How do you help others?
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Chapter Four: The Cost of Freedom
Every girl should learn to stitch a hem. Ask your mother, grandmother or another woman to teach you.
Why do you think Mrs. Ford let Addy stay downstairs?
Chapter Five: Christmas Surprises
Why do you think some people are rude at Christmas?
What foods are part of your Christmas celebration?
Have you ever welcomed someone home, who you feared you’d never see again?
Looking Back
Do you celebrate Kwanzaa?
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Addy Learns a Lesson
Chapter One: A New Home
Do you think freedom will be easy for Momma and Addy? Why?
Chapter Two: Freedom?
Have you felt cramped?
Would you like to share a bathroom with ten families?
“Freedom got a cost” do you think that still applies today?
How did you feel when you learned to read your name?
Chapter Three: Tested
Compare Harriet to a girl you know.
Do you think friends and enemies have changed in the last century?
Do you have a friend you study with?
How did you learn to read?
Do you think Addy is being fair to Sarah?
Chapter Four: The Lines are Drawn
What is your family like?
Have you watched troops leaving for Iraq?
Have you been made fun of?
Chapter Five: The Spelling Match
Have you been left out?
Describe a time your parents were proud of you.
Have you been in a spelling bee?
What prizes have you won in school?
Watch Akeelah and the Bee
Looking Back
Learn to sing “America”
America (My Country, 'tis of Thee) by Rev. Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895)
My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To Thee we sing,
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might
Great God, our King.
In February, 1832, Reverend Smith was reading through some German music and was particularly attracted to the tune of "God Save the King," although he was unable to understand the German words. "In a brief period of time at the close of a dismal winter afternoon" (his own words), he penned the verses as they now appear. The tune itself was controversial. It was considered to be "un-American" in later years, even though the tune had actually appeared in America before 1776. It was used for a number of patriotic songs, including God Save the President, and God Save George Washington. In 1798, it appeared again as an Ode to the Fourth of July, with the words, "Come All ye Sons of Song. "The author removed one of the original verses dealing with tyrants and ending with "No more our blood be shed... By alien hands."
“Rally Round the Flag”
Rallying Song
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys
Rally once again,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
We will rally from the hillside
We'll gather from the plains,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus: The Union forever!
Hurrah boys hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star,
While we rally round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
2. We are springing to the call
Of our borthers gone before,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
And we'll fill the vacant ranks
With a million freemen more,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
3. We will welcome to our numbers The loyal, true and brave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom And altho' they may be poor Not a man shall be a slave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
4. So we're springing to the call From the East and from the West, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And we'll hurl the Rebel crew From the land we love the best, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
Battle Song
We are marching to the field, boys, We're going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we bear the glorious stars For the Union and the right, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus: The Union forever! Hurrah boys hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star, For we're marching to the field, boys,
Going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
2. We will meet the Rebel host, boys, With fearless heart and true, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we'll show what Uncle Sam has For loyal men to do, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus: 3. If we fall amid the fray, boys, We'll face them to the last, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And our comrades brave shall hear us As they go rushing past, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus:
4. Yes, for Liberty and Union We're springing to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And the vict'ry shall be ours For we're rising in our might, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus
This song was written as a rallying song for the Union and its supporters and was extremely popular up North. It was also known and sung down South by Confederate troops as well, who wrote their own verses.
Do you think freedom will be easy for Momma and Addy? Why?
Chapter Two: Freedom?
Have you felt cramped?
Would you like to share a bathroom with ten families?
“Freedom got a cost” do you think that still applies today?
How did you feel when you learned to read your name?
Chapter Three: Tested
Compare Harriet to a girl you know.
Do you think friends and enemies have changed in the last century?
Do you have a friend you study with?
How did you learn to read?
Do you think Addy is being fair to Sarah?
Chapter Four: The Lines are Drawn
What is your family like?
Have you watched troops leaving for Iraq?
Have you been made fun of?
Chapter Five: The Spelling Match
Have you been left out?
Describe a time your parents were proud of you.
Have you been in a spelling bee?
What prizes have you won in school?
Watch Akeelah and the Bee
Looking Back
Learn to sing “America”
America (My Country, 'tis of Thee) by Rev. Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895)
My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To Thee we sing,
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might
Great God, our King.
In February, 1832, Reverend Smith was reading through some German music and was particularly attracted to the tune of "God Save the King," although he was unable to understand the German words. "In a brief period of time at the close of a dismal winter afternoon" (his own words), he penned the verses as they now appear. The tune itself was controversial. It was considered to be "un-American" in later years, even though the tune had actually appeared in America before 1776. It was used for a number of patriotic songs, including God Save the President, and God Save George Washington. In 1798, it appeared again as an Ode to the Fourth of July, with the words, "Come All ye Sons of Song. "The author removed one of the original verses dealing with tyrants and ending with "No more our blood be shed... By alien hands."
“Rally Round the Flag”
Rallying Song
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys
Rally once again,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
We will rally from the hillside
We'll gather from the plains,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus: The Union forever!
Hurrah boys hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star,
While we rally round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
2. We are springing to the call
Of our borthers gone before,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
And we'll fill the vacant ranks
With a million freemen more,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
3. We will welcome to our numbers The loyal, true and brave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom And altho' they may be poor Not a man shall be a slave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
4. So we're springing to the call From the East and from the West, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And we'll hurl the Rebel crew From the land we love the best, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
Chorus:
Battle Song
We are marching to the field, boys, We're going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we bear the glorious stars For the Union and the right, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus: The Union forever! Hurrah boys hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star, For we're marching to the field, boys,
Going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
2. We will meet the Rebel host, boys, With fearless heart and true, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we'll show what Uncle Sam has For loyal men to do, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus: 3. If we fall amid the fray, boys, We'll face them to the last, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And our comrades brave shall hear us As they go rushing past, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus:
4. Yes, for Liberty and Union We're springing to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And the vict'ry shall be ours For we're rising in our might, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. Chorus
This song was written as a rallying song for the Union and its supporters and was extremely popular up North. It was also known and sung down South by Confederate troops as well, who wrote their own verses.
Meet Addy
Chapter One: Whispers of Freedom
Have you faked sleeping? Did it work?
What does freedom mean to you?
Chapter Two: Sold!
Slaves were sold every day. How do you think the families felt?
Chapter Three: A New Plan
What chores do you hate?
What do you think about Momma’s view of love and hate?
Do you know anyone with a heart full of hate? What are they like? How about someone with a heart full of love?
Could you imagine leaving your baby sister, knowing you may never see her again?
Chapter Four: Into the Night
My name, Amie, also means “Much Loved”. What does your name mean?
Can you trace your relatives to the Civil War?
Chapter Five: Freedom Taken
How do you think Addy felt?
Looking Back
Read about the Underground Railroad.
Have you faked sleeping? Did it work?
What does freedom mean to you?
Chapter Two: Sold!
Slaves were sold every day. How do you think the families felt?
Chapter Three: A New Plan
What chores do you hate?
What do you think about Momma’s view of love and hate?
Do you know anyone with a heart full of hate? What are they like? How about someone with a heart full of love?
Could you imagine leaving your baby sister, knowing you may never see her again?
Chapter Four: Into the Night
My name, Amie, also means “Much Loved”. What does your name mean?
Can you trace your relatives to the Civil War?
Chapter Five: Freedom Taken
How do you think Addy felt?
Looking Back
Read about the Underground Railroad.
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