The following standards have been taken from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards.

Students will be able to:

• Understand how the rapid expansion of slavery changed American lives and led to regional tensions.
• Understand and be able to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.
• Understand historical perspective.
• Gather and use information for research purposes.
• Use:
• Stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
• Grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions.
• Reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary and informational texts.
• Listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.

Skills Attained

Students will:

• Research, analyze, compare, and contrast understandings of slavery from different perspectives.
• Compare and contrast the reasons different people chose to act in different ways.
• Use electronic and print resources to discover the roles of the slave catcher, runaway slave, and Underground Railroad station conductor.
• Investigate and evaluate how cultures change over time.
• Creatively share information they discover through role play, diary, or song.
• Use a U.S. map and plan route.