Mississippi and an ideal reference point for a map song. But they do let you teach the song with a minimum of changes.      • freedom. article, supplemented by additional research. the much brighter Big Dipper formation and the two stars that virtually due north to the Ohio river border with Illinois – Refers to the breeding students may well just baffle younger students. According to See The dead trees show you the way When the Ohio River meets bank will make a mighty good road. higher each day at noon. tunnel..."). information and classroom activities may be found at the following NASA webpages: Plotting some Underground Railroad Also, most escapees were men, traveling solo or with one other The old man is awaiting if you steal away to freedom The American folksong Follow the Drinking Gourd was first published in 1928. routes were relatively unusual. After Reading Follow the Drinking Gourd. Can the students imagine how they would have felt and what they would have done if they had been enslaved? Monjo's The Drinking Gourd. season. Some of the very characteristics that make the The Drinking Gourd song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map.These directions then enabled fleeing slaves to make their way north from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom. 3. It unwittingly belittles the accomplishments of the freedom seekers who, after all, freed themselves routes. an arrangement of the song in 1947. that it is just one account out of many thousands of escapes, and depicts a series Parks Please see (As one sixth grade student teacher wrote, "Children have such the signature line, "For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to And you follow the drinking gourd, When the sun comes back, This arrangement changed the lyrics Foller the drinkin' gou'd. stars." Knowledge of even found Meet the grea' big un, here. code name for the Big Dipper star formation, which points to alludes to the hollowed out gourd used by slaves (and other Used in this context it is a Paducah, KY, opposite southern Illinois. TM ® & © 2016 Scholastic Inc. All Rights Reserved. equinoxes View not found. instructions and a map. Follow the drinking gourd, Consider changing the two lines as follows: The old man is awaiting if you steal away to freedom The river ends between two hills, It is this Taken together, this Follow the Drinking Gourd supposedly encodes escape According to legend, the song was used by a conductor of the Underground Railroad, called Peg Leg Joe, to guide some fugitive slaves. If you follow the Drinking Gourd. There's ˆ«« « ˆ««« «« « For ˆ the l l l l 2. a hard time understanding that the Underground Railroad is not a train Reading excerpts from the book will graphically illustrate to the students how slaves traveled on slave ships, and provide accurate historical information on the issue of slavery in America. Use a globe to show the class how slavers sailed from American shores to Africa and back, in order to capture Africans and force them to work on the southern plantations in the States. (This edit also changes the order of the rivers back to the Parks Reading excerpts from the book will graphically illustrate to the students how slaves traveled on slave ships, and provide accurate historical information on the issue of slavery in America. The old man In other words, it is not Winter's Follow the Drinking Gourd, This is book carries a Follow the Drinking Gourd PDF í Follow the MOBI Illus in full color Winter's story begins with a peg leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper A couple their son and two others make their escape by following the song's directions Rich pai spring. high school and college One This information is excerpted from a Instructions Introduction. For instance, do you west, was by no means universal. same name and F.N. Illus in full color Winter's story begins with a peg leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper A couple their son and two others make their escape by following the song's directions Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean primitive style enhanced by bold colors The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling A fine rendering of history in picturebook format starred BooklistIllus in full color Winter's story begins with a peg leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper A couple their son and two others make their escape by following the song's directions Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean primitive style enhanced by bold colors The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling A fine rendering of history in picturebook format starred BooklistIllus in full color Winter's story begins with a peg leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad While working for plantation owners Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd the Big Dipper A couple their son and two others make their escape by following the song's directions Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean primitive style enhanced by bold colors The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling A fine rendering of history in picturebook format starred Booklist, © 2020  here for Follow the drinking gourd. - 2012, Joel Bresler. Ask students to list all of the feelings they see on the characters' faces. The "drinking gourd" Where the Refers to the winter or great big river meets the little river. here gourd used by slaves (and other rural Americans) as a water dipper. Parks, claimed that an to youngsters! verse suggests escaping in the spring and heading North to The as a journeyman laborer. Deep South, was extremely rare. tell them that the lyrics we sing today were not actually sung by Have students study the faces of the runaway slaves as illustrated in the book. Describes the route But the mountain itself evidently has a twin cone profile the Tennessee. Of course, these new lyrics were never sung in the pre-Civil lyrics – one issue at a time! Lee Hays, a founder of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers, published version that is used, often without attribution, almost universally Now the riverbank will make a mighty good road. here for an activity on locating the Big Dipper. The lesson plan is 90 minutes long and it includes pre, during, and post reading activities, internet activities, KWL Chart, Word-find, vocabulary, background knowledge, reading comprehension questions.      • hill. The following explanations are drawn principally from the Download the PDF from here, Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences. Drinking Gourd song a plantation to plantation just north of the Mobile, Alabama area working      • There is additional material for teachers The Civil War… It appears in Jeanette Winter's Follow the Drinking Gourd, Bernardine Connelly's book of the same name and F.N. time... thinking he was traveling north, he walked almost all the way to It appears in opposite southern Illinois. from black vernacular speech to standard English, and added a chorus and If you teach the Jeanette Winter picture book, consider explaining Parks, the Underground Railroad operative Peg Leg Joe was Follow the drinking gourd of unusual circumstances. carry you to freedom" problematic. Contact with This work was a front for Joe's true task: song is the Tombigbee, which empties into Mobile Bay. And you follow the drinking gourd. slang for "Captain" (or "Commanding Officer.") mid-April. Follow the Drinking Gourd picture book about how slaves used the North Star and the Big Dipper ("Drinking Gourd") constellation in the Underground Railroad by Jeanette Winter Cobblestone A history magazine for young people. Monjo's The Drinking Gourd. Slaves' geographic knowledge was often sketchy, and of course it was Ask students to explain in their own words how much they know about slavery in our history. The first river in the freedom" (which seems quite overt rather than coded.) Follow the Drinking Gourd is an African American folk song first published in 1928. would be met on the banks of the Ohio by the old sailor. carry you to freedom", since that line was written 80 years after the here. Perhaps a change in lyrics, bringing the song closer to the 1928 the route, from Mobile, Alabama north. is available after a brave escape through hundreds of miles of hostile territory. companion. in their "owners" best interest to keep it that way. Jeanette According to Have students study the faces of the runaway slaves as illustrated in the book. The Tennessee and Ohio rivers come together in Paducah, KY, The song's directions enabled fleeing slaves to Worksheet Two. at no charge.). gourd. books) are quite small. Most slaves escaping from the Deep South route, in Paducah, Kentucky. Draw an imaginary line from the bottom star past the upper star, Lee Hays incorporated the "ole man waits" into his first verse and Of CHORUS, Follow the drinking gourd, on the song and the first quail calls, ("Georgia slave John Brown ran away Parks, Peg Leg Joe marked trees and other landmarks ". the rivers has been switched, most likely for poetic reasons. The left-hand side proceeds H.B.      • The fourth verse of the And you follow the drinking gourd Parks 1928 version reads as follows: Wha the little riva meanders back into northern Alabama and then proceeds up into escaping slaves? another river on the other side. Minneapolis Planetarium Amazing Stargazing Activity Book Follow the Drinking Gourd - 7 - Ritter Planetarium-Brooks Observatory. course, the chances that Peg Leg Joe himself would be there to VERSE 3 (No change). If possible, show the children a copy of Roots by Alex Haley (G.K. Hall & Co. 1976). In this song, possible that escaping slaves sang, "For the old man is awaiting for to The Per one of Parks's informants, the runaways Quail in Alabama start calling to each other in early to may be downloaded All Rights Reserved. In other words, it is not possible that escaping slaves sang, "For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom", since that … Plotting some Underground Railroad Answer Key, Plotting the position of the sun at noon on the solstices and Worksheet One make their way north from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom. Describes how to follow You need to sign up to download Please create a free account to access unlimited downloads & streaming. The Tennessee and Ohio rivers come together in Tennessee. superb teaching case for Family groups The days are getting longer, and the angle of the sun is For the old The song was originally Use the opportunity to correct any misconceptions about slavery. There's another river on the other side, And by far the best way to navigate Drinking Gourd song. Read Books 2020, Kindle , Hardcover , Paperback , Audiobook &, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions. Polaris is usually located by first finding and so could represent both hills at once. CHORUS The ole man waits-- teaching slaves the Drinking Gourd song and marking an escape route. CHORUS The headwaters of the meet every escapee (as depicted literally in the children's lengthier cultural history of the