Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown | 
pickThis biography (B) is about a boy named Henry Brown who goes through many hardships throughout his life as a black slave. He always seems to find a song to sing in these rough times. He loses much of his family throughout the slave trade but comes up with a plan to mail himself in a box to get to a free state. Will he make it? #UCFLAE3414SP18
Laura.S I would use this as an author study because Sally Walker has written other biographies which would be great for students to research. Https://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?a=1&aid=8978&a2=1 the link takes you to a page about the author and her books. This page also has resources to use with those books. UDL 9.2, facilitate personal coping skills and strategies aligns because Henry uses his “freedom song” as a coping skill during the hard times. 7y
Laura.S EL 13- use preview activities would be great to introduce slavery and that period of time before reading. This way students would know why African Americans were being sold/traded as slaves. 7y
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