This Harriet Tubman curriculum explores freedom, courage, strategy, spirituality, resistance, and liberation. Students move beyond simplified biography to examine Tubman as a leader, freedom fighter, and historical force. Ideal for Black history, women’s history, social studies, ELA, and classrooms teaching resistance with depth and dignity.
GRADE RANGE: Middle & High School • Adaptable
LENGTH: 10 lessons
DISCIPLINES: ELA • U.S. History • Science/Botany
CORE TEXT: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad — Ann Petry
This Harriet Tubman curriculum explores freedom, courage, strategy, spirituality, resistance, and liberation. Students move beyond simplified biography to examine Tubman as a leader, freedom fighter, and historical force. Ideal for Black history, women’s history, social studies, ELA, and classrooms teaching resistance with depth and dignity.
GRADE RANGE: Middle & High School • Adaptable
LENGTH: 10 lessons
DISCIPLINES: ELA • U.S. History • Science/Botany
CORE TEXT: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad — Ann Petry