Name: ________________________ SS7 Summer Reading 2015
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
-James Baldwin
Welcome to Migration and Multiple Cultures:
Investigations into the History of the United States (aka Social Studies 7)
To help you prepare for the upcoming year in Social Studies, you will read Miles to Go for
Freedom as part of your required summer reading. It is important to recognize that this piece
of non-fiction should not be approached in the same way you would read a novel. This guide
will help you work through the book; please use it as you read. Do not try to read the book
word-by-word, cover-to-cover.
Please bring this guide and Miles to Go to class on Wednesday, September 2. Recommended Steps for Reading 1) Skim the Preface and the Introduction. Try to spend about 15 minutes on these two
sections. Then answer the question below.
2) Skim the entire book and look at the pictures. Then respond below. Try to spend about 20 minutes on this.
3) Read each major chapter (The South, The North, & The Nation) with the outline. Write down
notes/phrases/key words on the outline as you go through the chapter. Your notes may NOT be complete sentences. Each chapter should take you approximately 45 minutes.
4) When you finish, if you have time and/or if you were particularly interested in the book, you
can go back to sections and read them more in-depth. Preface & Introduction: In these sections, are there any names of people whom you recognize? Write their names here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Pictures: Choose one picture that stands out to you and/or “speaks to you.” Write down the page number and then write a few phrases to explain why you chose this picture. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Name: ________________________ SS7 Summer Reading 2015
Chapter 1: The South
Plessy v. Ferguson:________________________________________________________________________
Jim Crow:________________________________________________________________________________
Lynching:________________________________________________________________________________
NACW: __________________________________________________________________________________
NAACP:__________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 2: The North
3 Examples of Jim Crow:__________________________________________________________________________
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Great Migration:__________________________________________________________________________________
Schools: _________________________________________________________________________________________
National Urban League: __________________________________________________________________________
Housing (or real estate) challenges:________________________________________________________________
Harlem Renaissance:_____________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter 3: The Nation
World War I:______________________________________________________________________________________
Eleanor Roosevelt:________________________________________________________________________________
World War II:______________________________________________________________________________________
CORE:___________________________________________________________________________________________
Brown v. Board of Education:______________________________________________________________________
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