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Apollo 11 and Artemis II Activities

Printable Man on the Moon activities are in a Beacon Library app in the cloud.

  • Click here and a new screen will open the Beacon Library app.
  • Enter your contact info and the Beacon Library app will email you a download link.
  • Print the activities on 8.5×11″ paper in full-color or gray-scale (black ink only).
  • Clicking each underlined NASA on “Then and Now” PDF will take you to each multimedia site.

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Twice Enslaved


by Selene Castrovilla (Author) and Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Henrietta Wood was born enslaved. As a teen she was ripped from her family and sold. Years later, a miracle happened, and she was given freedom papers. But Henrietta’s freedom was short-lived. She was tricked back into enslavement and sent to a Mississippi cotton plantation.

On June 19, 1865—Juneteenth—she was emancipated. Finally free for good, Henrietta Wood sued the man who had kidnapped her back into enslavement—and she won! Henrietta was one of the few people in United States history to ever receive a reparation payment for slavery.

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The author, Selene Castrovilla, is one of my former students.
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