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Literature Online Assignment Homework, January 5

1. Go to: http://pathways.thinkport.org/flash_home.cfm
 * Part One**
 * Following the Footsteps**

2. Click on “Following the Footsteps” and take a trip through time…

3. Click on “go to interactive” to begin your journey. As you imagine yourself as a slave in 1850, you must make decisions that will ultimately change your life. Feel free to scan your mouse over the pictures to find the hidden messages revealed.


 * Part Two**
 * About the Underground Railroad – Facts About Slavery**


 * Are you an expert on slavery in the United States in the 1800's? For homework you will be using your fact-finding skills to answer questions on many aspects of slavery.**

1. Go to the “About the Underground Railroad” page of the website Pathways to Freedom: Maryland & the Underground Railroad: http://pathways.thinkport.org/about/

2. You will see a numbered list of questions related to the Underground Railroad. Corresponding numbers appear along the top of the box.

3. There are 15 questions in the list. Clicking on any of these fifteen questions will bring you to a screen that gives an informative answer to the question.

(Once you have left the main list of questions, you can go from question to question using the numbers along the top of the box. Or you may click on About the Underground Railroad along the left side of the screen to return to the complete list of questions.)

4. The purpose of using the interactive is to locate information that will help you answer the questions on the worksheet “Facts About Slavery.” All of your answers will be found in the “About the Underground Railroad” section.

5. Please write your answers directly on the worksheet. Write in complete sentences.