Using Coded Messages
An Underground Railroad Activity
Classroom
Using actual code words once used in the Underground Railroad, students will create a coded song or nursery rhyme using a familiar song’s tune.
Materials:
Copies of original nursery rhymes and song books
Paper and pencil
List of code words
Example:
Three Large Bundles
(using tune of Three Blind Mice)
Three large bundles, three large bundles,
See how they move! See how they move!
They all float down the river y’all
To the house that has the big stone wall
Did you ever see such a wonderful haul
As three large bundles?