African American Lives In the North And South
1. Justify how this project/activity/assignment meets the standard, using evidence from the standard itself to demonstrate your mastery and/or understanding.
8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
1. Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.
2. Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).
3. Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War.
4. Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
My assignment meets these standards because in my project, I needed to talk about how the South and the North were different and how the African Americans in each side were. In the South, African Americans we slaves and had to do labor works for their owners but in the North, African Americans were free and were just a little lower classed than the white merchants. Another thing that we had to do that's on these standards is about cotton and how it was a cash crop in America. They also made a machine called a cotton gin that made cleaning cotton much easier but white southerners has to depend on more slave.
2. Elaborate on at least 1 skill and/or strength you feel you gained from completing this project.
One thing I feel I gained after completing this assignment was knowing the different kind of things African Americans had to go trough a long time ago. This helped me know that slaves had a very hard time and helps me understand why they were mistreated. Also, it helped me understand why they rebelled and acted so bad to their owners. Another thing I learned was the different lives between the North and South parts of America. I learned that the North did not use slavery and knew that was the right thing to do while South was for slavery and used them for agriculture.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/score, what is ONE area of work you could have done better on? How will improving in this area benefit future work/projects?
One area I could have improved on in this assignment was to explain why the African Americans did what they did. For example, I could have explained why the slaves rebelled to their owners and why they acted like they did. Also, I could've done the same with the slave owners and explained why they depended on slaves so much and why they couldn't just do the work themselves.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real world. Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply the skills I learned form this assignment in English when we are reading To Kill A Mockingbird and I can compare the life back then to when slavery ended. I can compare if the African American lives were better long ago or in the book and I can compare it to the real world right now. I can see the similarities and differences on how segregated the world was before and right now.
8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
1. Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.
2. Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).
3. Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War.
4. Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
My assignment meets these standards because in my project, I needed to talk about how the South and the North were different and how the African Americans in each side were. In the South, African Americans we slaves and had to do labor works for their owners but in the North, African Americans were free and were just a little lower classed than the white merchants. Another thing that we had to do that's on these standards is about cotton and how it was a cash crop in America. They also made a machine called a cotton gin that made cleaning cotton much easier but white southerners has to depend on more slave.
2. Elaborate on at least 1 skill and/or strength you feel you gained from completing this project.
One thing I feel I gained after completing this assignment was knowing the different kind of things African Americans had to go trough a long time ago. This helped me know that slaves had a very hard time and helps me understand why they were mistreated. Also, it helped me understand why they rebelled and acted so bad to their owners. Another thing I learned was the different lives between the North and South parts of America. I learned that the North did not use slavery and knew that was the right thing to do while South was for slavery and used them for agriculture.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/score, what is ONE area of work you could have done better on? How will improving in this area benefit future work/projects?
One area I could have improved on in this assignment was to explain why the African Americans did what they did. For example, I could have explained why the slaves rebelled to their owners and why they acted like they did. Also, I could've done the same with the slave owners and explained why they depended on slaves so much and why they couldn't just do the work themselves.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real world. Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply the skills I learned form this assignment in English when we are reading To Kill A Mockingbird and I can compare the life back then to when slavery ended. I can compare if the African American lives were better long ago or in the book and I can compare it to the real world right now. I can see the similarities and differences on how segregated the world was before and right now.