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Underground to Canada Plot Summary

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Learning to summarize a story is a skill students will use throughout their life. Starting with the Beginning, Middle, and End, students will learn to identify important scenes in stories in a way that creates an easy to understand summary. In this activity, students will create a 3 cell storyboard that summarizes Underground to Canada. Teachers may choose to ask students to illustrate a traditional plot diagram as a way to differentiate this assignment for ambitious students, having them separate the story into the Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

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Beginning: When the readers first meet Julilly, she is enslaved on the Hensen Plantation in Virginia with her mother; they have lived there since Julilly was born and are treated better than most other slaves, as far as they know. When a nasty slave trader arrives, Julilly is separated from her mother and sold to the Rileys in Mississippi.

Middle: After a long and miserable journey, Julilly and the others, including her new friend Liza, arrive at the Riley Plantation. It is a terrible place to be, but Julilly has new hope when she discovers that Mister Ross, who has disguised himself as a bird scientist, plans to help some slaves escape. Julilly, Liza, and two men named Adam and Lester begin their journey on the Underground Railroad.

End: After another long journey, being separated from Lester and Adam, several close calls, and many scary moments, Julilly and Liza arrive in Canada. Julilly is reunited with Lester and her momma, who agrees to take care of Liza.

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Objective: Create a visual summary of Underground to Canada.

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Click "Start Assignment".
Separate the story into the beginning, middle, and end.
Create an image that represents an important moment or set of events for each of the story components using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
Write a short description of each of the examples in the plot diagram.
Save and exit when you're finished

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Grade Level 6-8

Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery)

Type of Assignment Individual

Type of Activity: Plot Diagrams and Narrative Arcs

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Beginning, Middle, and End Summary

Create a storyboard that summarizes the story. The storyboard should have three cells - one for each part. Below each cell, type in 1-2 sentences that describes that part of the story.

	Proficient	Emerging	Beginning
Plot	Each of the three cells represents a different part of the story. The cells are in order from beginning to end. Sentences accurately summarize each part.	One cell is out of order, or the storyboard is missing important information.	Important information is missing and/or two or three cells are out of order.
Images	Cells include images that help to tell the story and do not get in the way of understanding.	Some of the images help tell the story. Descriptions do not always match the images.	Images do not make sense with the story.
Spelling and Grammar	Spelling and grammar is mostly accurate. Mistakes do not get in the way of understanding.	Spelling is very inaccurate and hinders full understanding.	Text is difficult to understand.

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