Drama in the Buxton Schoolhouse

This program embraces stories of the Underground Railroad and adapts them to the Language and Social Studies, focusing on the Drama, Music and Arts curriculum at the Junior level.

Activities in the program, Drama In the Buxton Schoolhouse, include: an interactive game, writing, journaling, play writing, self & group evaluating, dramatic performances, interviewing and reporting. role playing, listening & historic portrayals, creative movement, singing, artistic designing, creating life maps,  researching, classifying, slide shows, creating tableaux, creative dancing & rhythms, making comparisons, creating family trees, charts & bio-boards.

This program contains three (3)  study units, with the following resources included:

• Teacher's Guide that relates each activity to the appropriate area of the junior curriculum in Language, Social Studies, and The Arts.
• Video (DVD or VHS): The Many Roads to Buxton (documenting the community from Elgin Settlement to North Buxton, approx. 30 minutes)
• a CD Rom with with all a total of 22 lessons, audio historical portrayals, music needed to complete musical activities, activity sheets, and an interactive game that simulates the escape of a young girl on the Underground  Railroad. Students are given the opportunity to accompany this girl as she makes her way to Buxton. They will be  required to make critical decisions during the escape attempt. The consequences of their decisions will determine their route and their success.
• Activities to prepare students for museum visit
• Activities to follow up a museum visit

 FULL RESOURCE KIT COST: $65.00

 

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Also available in study units!

Escape To Freedom: $25.00 + shipping 

• CD Rom containing an interactive game in which students will participate in the escape of a young girl. Decisons will be made along the escape route and consequences of those decisions will follow. When students successfully navigate the escape route, they will end in the Buxton Settlement where they will learn about the settlement, and other people who have found freedom there. The CD Rom also contains a set of activities related to this game.
• 9 lesson activities
• Teacher's Guide that relates each activity to the appropriate area of the junior curriculum in Language, Social Studies, and The Arts.

Freedom Songs:  $25.00 + shipping

• Interactive CD Rom with audio historical portrayals, music needed to complete musical activities, activity sheets
• 13 lesson activities
• Teacher's Guide that relates each activity to the appropriate area of the junior curriculum in Language, Social Studies, and The Arts.

Road To Buxton: $25.00 + shipping

• Video (DVD or VHS): The Many Roads to Buxton (documenting the community from Elgin Settlement to North Buxton, approx. 30 minutes)
• Interactive CD Rom containing audio historical portrayals of several of the women of Buxton in the 1850's and 1860's
• 8 lesson activities
• Teacher's Guide that relates each activity to the appropriate area of the junior curriculum in Language, Social Studies, and The Arts.

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For young scholars who have the good fortune to visit the Buxton Museum on a class trip!

A full day program delivered by the Buxton Museum staff in the S.S. #13 Raleigh, North Buxton School. Students will use the information they gather from a mandatory activity during portions of the School Day in Buxton. This activity involves researching one of five families from the early Buxton Settlement.  All the resources necessary to complete this activity are also included on the CD Rom.

During a day at the Buxton Schoolhouse, students will encounter three different and distinct time periods.

1861

Students will identify and portray the first settlers of Buxton who traveled the Underground Railroad, hearing an actual escape and capturing some of the details of that escape to create new escape scenes and adventures. They will become familiar with the 1852 log cabin that was the home of an early settler and building on that experience, portraying the children of the early settlers as they prepare to attend the Buxton Schoolhouse.

1910

Students will portray the grandchildren of the early settlers as they attended the Buxton School.  They will experience the subjects and the tools those students used during their school day and will be subject to the teaching methods of the time period.

2000’s

Students will work out what life would be like for the ancestors of an original Buxton family that they have researched  during their pre-visit activities. They will create a dramatic or musical presentation that uses 1860’s artifacts and interprets them in present day situations.

The Resource package will be sent on confirmation of booking. In order to refund deposit for booking, we must receive 48 hours notice of cancellation.

You should allow at least 6 weeks to complete activities before your visit.

A non-refundable fee of $100 is required to confirm booking and will be applied to the cost of resource package and fee for the students visit ($10.00 per student).

COST PER STUDENT: $10.00  (plus resource kit of choice)

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website created July 2008; updated November 2009; by Lori Gardner