After reading this web page, make a timeline of Harriet Tubman's life in your reading journal.  Start with her birth and end with her death.  Make sure to include all the important years of her life in between life and death.  Explain why those years were important in her life.

Click on Vocabulary Quilt.  Look over all the vocabulary words.  Click on each word to read the definition.  Once you have read them all, pick 10.  Add those ten to your reading journal.  Make sure you pick the ten you think are most important and write the defintions with the word.  Be able to explain why you picked the ten that you did.

  Click your way through the story of how Harriet Tubman freed the slaves.  If you were Harriet how would you convince the slaves that beyond the danger they were going to be free and they had to keep remembering that?  Respond to this in your reading journal.  Make sure you are persuasive! 

Click on Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period.  Read about the blacks who were free or became free during slavery.  Pick one and compare that person to Harriet Tubman.  How were they alike?  How were they different.  Put your response in your reading journal. 

Pretend you are a runaway slave traveling with Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad.  Give yourself a name and write an essay in your reading journal about how you feel along the way.  Tell about each stop on your way to freedom.  Give a description of the stop and tell about your emotions. 

On this site find four ways in which Americans have paid tribute to Harriet Tubman.  Write the four ways in reading journal.  Make sure you not only write the way, but also explain the importance of the event.