Follow the drinking gourd...

Chapter 8 Historical Fiction in our text talks about the benefits of using stories to teach history. It talks about reading stories allowed to students and using Drama to enhance students understanding of the events. This past spring in one of my classes a teacher introduced me to the song Follow the Drinking Gourd. While he sang it for us I recognized it from when I was in elementary school. It tells the story of the Underground Railroad. He used music and art to introduce us to this story that he told. He created a river and forest out of paper that we could walk through and together we sang the song.