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 Henry's Freedom Box:
A True Story from the Underground Railroad
by Ellen Levine
If you were enslaved, to what lengths would you go in order to be free? In Book-It All Over's winter touring show, Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, Henry Brown is faced with this question. Born a slave, repeatedly separated from his family and the people he loves, Henry decides to take an incredible risk and literally mail himself to freedom. In this remarkable true story of perseverance in the face of oppression, audiences will have the chance to follow Henry's rollercoaster of a journey from bondage to liberty.
GRADES: K – 8
TOURS: January – April 2011
THEMES: Perseverance, slavery, family, American history, creative problem solving
EVENTS: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Black History Month
Illustration from Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, Copyright 2007 by Kadir Nelson, Inc.. Published by Scholastic Press. All Rights Reserved.
Booking Details:
Each performance runs between 25 and 45 minutes and can be performed in venues as small as a classroom or as large as an auditorium. In conjunction with each performance, Book-It offers workshops for children and young adults to reinforce what they have seen. Students can use voice, body, and imagination to create characters and explore environments, or develop a play in the Book-It Style™ from their own story. These workshops allow young people to make the leap between seeing art and creating it.
Workshop Choices: Themes in Motion (Grades K-2, 45 min) Based on the story presented, the teaching artists use creative dramatics to take the students through different themes. Storytelling Standing Up (Grades 3-12, one hour) 30 students write a seven-sentence story, adapt it into the Book-It Style™, are cast and directed by the teaching artists, then perform their literary creation.
Cost: Touring Story $575, includes performance, book, study guide, and workshop
Additional Workshops: $125 each, additional travel fees apply.
To book Henry's Freedom Box for your school or community center call 206.428.6319 or email education@book-it.org. Click for more information about Book-It All Over.
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