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Recommended for: Grades 6-12

Resource: Sapelo Island Culture

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Length: 7m 16s
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This video segment from Egg: the arts show presents the Gullah/Geechee community of Sapelo Island, a barrier island located off the coast of Georgia. The original Gullah/Geechee people were enslaved there but when slavery was abolished, the island was abandoned to the former slaves. Sapelo Island's valuable land is now threatened as it is the only Gullah/Geechee community to successfully resist real estate development. Each year, in order to preserve and educate people outside Sapelo, island residents hold a festival bringing people to the island to teach them about Gullah/Geechee life and culture.

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Teachers' Domain, Sapelo Island Culture, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.sapcul/

 

The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) Where is Sapelo Island located? What is the importance of setting to a narrative?

Focus (ELA) What is special about Sapelo Island? How does the island's setting contribute to its uniqueness?

Frame (SS) Who are the Gullah/Geechee? What are the Gullah/Geechee known for? From what languages are both names, "Gullah" and  "Geechee," derived?

Focus (SS) In what way was the song "Read 'em John" significant to the slaves of Sapelo Island? Why is it significant today?

Source: EGG: The Arts Show: "Off the Charts"

Learn more about the EGG: The Arts Show segment "Off the Charts."

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U.S. Department of Education

Funding for the VITAL/Ready to Teach collection was secured through the United States Department of Education under the Ready to Teach Program.