PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson bundle provides digital pre-reading resources & factual historical background information for Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Ann Petry. BL 6.6GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms, literature