Suggested Activities for Stand
- Have your students read the short piece, "What
Is Tourette Syndrome," and discuss how having this condition
affected the character, Nig-Nag.
- After reading about the original Freedom's Journal, have your students
begin listing possible topics based on people and events in The Price
of a Child that they could develop into articles for a new edition
of Freedom's Journal.
- Ask students to explain the following quote from Chapter 2, "Tyree
relished the irony that in 1855, Girard's Delaware Avenue was making
freedom possible for a black woman."
- Have students retell the details of Ginnie's escape from two points
of view, a southern slave owner and an abolitionist.
- Ask students to reread the chapter and list the vocabulary that the
author uses to support the historic time period. Make a list of words
that would be used in their stead in 2003.
- The author uses dialogue between the characters to give us information
about their assorted personalities. Ask your students to create a hypothetical
conversation that would give us insight into the personalities of several
people that they know.
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