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1. Make a “scorecard” showing the “white” and “black” rules of baseball during the era of the Negro League (2nd inning).
2. Create baseball cards for at least three players from the Negro league (5th inning).
3. Write three journal entries as a player from the Negro League (3rd inning).
4. Write a news report about Rube Foster (1st inning).
5. Write a speech from a manager trying to convince the other managers that it is a good idea to have Negro players on the major league teams.
6. Create a timeline for the Negro Baseball League from 1920 until 1948.
7. List notable team owners in the Negro League. What was special about Gus Greenlee and Abe and Effa Manley?
8. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the Latin Leagues and the Negro league (6th inning).
9. Create a poster encouraging people to come to a Brooklyn Dodgers game after Jackie Robinson joined the team.
I found this idea at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic and adapted it for use at my school.
Summary: Kadir
Nelson narrates this story through the use of a character who played in the
Negro Baseball League. He is not a real
person, but represents all those who played.
The book tells a lot about the hardships faced by African American
baseball players. Nelson doesn’t
sugarcoat the facts about how prejudicial and unfair life was for these
baseball players. However, many of these
men were made stronger because of their difficult lives. These were the men who were able to persevere
and help change the American view of African Americans. We Are
the Ship is structured in a timeline sequence to tell the story of how the
Negro Baseball League came into existence.
We learn how players are finally welcomed, although in a not-so-friendly
way at first, into Major League Baseball, beginning with Jackie Robinson. It ends with a recounting of African
Americans playing in the majors today, including a list of all the Negro
Baseball League Players who made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Additional Lesson Idea:
Read Teammates by Peter
Golenbock. Do a text comparison. Both are about baseball, but students can
compare the themes, characters, events, etc.
The fifth grade teacher who used this lesson with her students said they really seemed to enjoy reading We Are the Ship and thought the choice board worked well for them to dig a little deeper into the meaning of the text while having some choice of activities.
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