Grade 5 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 7, Lesson 3

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Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 7, Lesson 3: Slavery in the Southern Colonies (pp. 167-173)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Change Africans were captured and brought to North America and became valuable to plantation owners.

Discuss with students how slavery began in North America. Ask them what they know about how Africans were captured, transported by ship, and sold in auctions. Make a chart with the headings First Passage, Middle Passage, and Third Passage and fill in details about each one from your discussion. Then explore with students the relationship between cash crops and slavery.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Ask students to write a paragraph that tells why slavery developed in the southern colonies of North America.
Page 173 shows a picture of a tobacco label. Have students draw a label for a rice bag from the 1600s.

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