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Friedland, Ellen S.; Phelps, Stephen; del Prado Hill, Pixita – Middle School Journal (J3), 2006
"Amistad," the story of a group of Mende people illegally brought to the United States from West Africa in 1839, was taught to a group of 90 eighth grade students. To learn about the "Amistad," these eighth graders visited a replica of the ship, read a nonfiction account of the Amistad story, and viewed the Steven Spielberg…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, United States History