Scott Foresman Reading Street

Social Studies
in Reading

Examine features of
expository nonfiction.
Practice a test-taking
strategy.
Compare and contrast
across texts.

PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES

As students preview "Leading People
to Freedom," have them look at the
maps and art. After they preview, ask:

How does the map on p. 406
help you understand
information? (It shows where
things took place.)
What does the illustration on
p. 407 show? Why did the
author likely include it? (It shows how slaves escaped. The author likely included it to show the danger and bravery of slaves on the Underground Railroad.)

Link to Social Studies

Remind students to use keywords in their search for information. You may want to make a list of research topics to avoid duplication.

Whole Group Discuss the Question of the Day.

Group Time
Differentiated Instruction

"Leading People to Freedom." See pp. 380f–380g for the small group lesson plan.

Reading

Language Arts
Use pp. 407e–407h and
407k–407m.

Whole Group Use pp. 407a and 407j.

Grouping Options

EXPOSITORY NONFICTION

Use the sidebar on p. 404 to guide
discussion.

Expository nonfiction gives
facts about a topic in a clear,
organized way.
Ask students why the author
included the map on p. 406.
Why would a map be used in
an expository nonfiction
selection? (The map presents
information about where
something happened in an
easy-to-understand way.)
Discuss with students the
information they can learn by
studying the visuals and
captions.

AudioText

Students should make the prediction
after reading p. 405. Ask students to identify details and make generalizations to help them make their predictions.

Text Features

Expository nonfiction
gives facts in a clear,
organized way.

Expository nonfiction
explains specific
details of a topic.

Genre

Expository
Nonfiction

BY JULIA NASSER PADGETT

It is one thing to follow your own dream of
freedom. It is quite another to bravely risk that freedom to help others be free. Harriet Tubman did just that. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820. Slavery is the owning of a person by another person. When she was a child, Harriet Tubman was sent away from her family to work in the fields. There she heard other slaves talk about wanting to be free. It was then that Harriet Tubman first heard of the Underground Railroad. It wasn't a real railroad with trains and stations, however. The Underground Railroad was a secret system that provided slaves with help and the opportunity to escape slavery and find freedom.
To keep things as secret as possible, the Underground Railroad even had its own code language. The "trains" were the people who were running to freedom. The "conductors" were the people who led slaves on their journey to parts of the northern United States and Canada. The "stations" were churches, homes, and stores of free African Americans and white people who believed that slavery was wrong.

Use the library or the
Internet to research other
people who worked on
or used the Underground
Railroad to escape
slavery. Share what you
learn in a brief report.

Link to
Social Studies

Maps or other graphics
are often used to show
where events took
place.

Can you make a prediction about Harriet Tubman?

Predict

escape	to free yourself and get away from captivity
outwit	outsmart
slavery	being owned by and having to work for someone else

Access Content Help students understand the concept of slavery. Also make
sure they understand the time period discussed in the text.

Economic Opportunity

Harriet Tubman began life as a slave. At the
time, even free women had few opportunities, but that
gradually changed. Until World War II, most women worked at home. Slowly they began to enter the workforce in greater numbers. During the Second World War, women went to work in factories while men served in the military. They received education and training that let them succeed in these jobs that had been only for men. Today women work in different jobs. While some women choose to work in the home, others can be found in jobs ranging from a bulldozer driver to a doctor, from a lawyer to a manager.