G3 Culture L4

Biographies

• Many school libraries include materials that tell the history of North Carolina.

• Some of these books are biographies

Social Studies | Culture

to get kids more interested in them, we are thinking of adding some Graphic Novel versions!

​Who would like to tell me what a Graphic Novel is?

Harriet Jacobs

Lunsford Lane

Anna Cooper

• Born a slave

• Taught to read and write by her owner's wife​

• Lived in coastal North Carolina

• Went into hiding when she had children, but they were sent to NY

• Escaped to the North​ to find her kids

• Wrote her life story​

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Harriet Jacobs

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• Born a slave in Raleigh

• Worked in a home

• Was able to buy his freedom for a lot of money, but still struggled to actually live as a free man

• Wrote his life story

• Opened a school later in life​

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Lunsford Lane

• Born a slave in Raleigh

• ​Worked in a home as a child

• After the Civil War, she earned a scholarship to college

• Had to struggle to attend because she was a woman, but finally did

• Wrote a book about her life

• Became the 4th Black woman in the COUNTRY to earn a doctorate degree!​

Anna Cooper

• ​Read the biography assigned to your group

• Using the Jamboard, enter the information as a graphic novel

• Three total pages - Early Life, Middle Life, Achievements