1. History of Chautauqua University Sojourner Truth E-Mentoring Program January

2. Chautauqua An American tradition since 1874

3. What is a Chautauqua? Instead of just focusing on entertainment, Chautauqua was a learning environment

4. Chautauqua Events Entire communities would attend a Chautauqua to hear musical performances, lectures, scientific and technological discoveries and listen to debates on political and religious issues

5. Freedom School Chautauqua The Chautauqua will have an Underground Railroad theme and all of us will become part of groups who will create, plan, and present an aspect of the Underground Railroad at the Chautauqua

6. By Discipline Each group of sophomores will choose a project.

7. Be Creative Choose a topic that not only interests you but will also give you insight to various subjects and disciplines

8. Geography Map a specific route of the Underground Railroad through a state or through the United States

9. Biology Create a Freedom Garden

10. Architecture Create or construct a model of a house and the hiding places that exist with inside the building Or create a false bottom wagon or a box that Henry “Box” Brown mailed himself to freedom in

11. English Write a Praise Poem; create and perform your poem on freedom or who you are Read a book on the Underground Railroad and perform an oral report on the book and author

12. Math Graph the time and distance traveled by an escaped slave

13. Music Learn and perform songs and dance used to communicate about the Underground Railroad by slaves

14. Theater Create and perform a one-act play about slavery or the Underground Railroad

15. Astronomy Diagram constellations and define those that would have assisted slaves as they escaped to the North

16. History Research a particular person or event in history that is significant to the Underground Railroad and present the biographical information at the Chautauqua

17. Start Projects Get into your groups and get started!