Slavery Module: Lesson seven

DO NOW

• Take out Shining Light Anchor Chart & homework

• Under your desk, find a card taped there!

• Place the card on the chart where it belongs, then compare with your shoulder partner

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People who defend slavery may think…

Frederick Douglass’s position

How slavery affects slaves

How slavery affects slave owners

The effects of the institution of slavery

I’ll read a category…if your

quote fits it, stand

up!




Slavery isn’t that bad for slaves. In fact, they are mostly content with their lot.

Slavery is terrible for slaves.


Slavery is good for slave owners.

Slavery corrupts slaveholders.


The institution of slavery is necessary:• It reflects the natural

racial order.• Slavery brings the

civilizing influence of Christianity to Africans, who would otherwise be uncivilized and immoral.

• Slavery creates an orderly society.

The institution of slavery is abhorrent, and the arguments people make about its important in creating a well-ordered and civilized society are incorrect.

Quotes that support

“Slavery is terrible for

slaves.”1.Read it out

2.EXPLAIN WHY















Quotes that support “Slavery

corrupts slaveholders.”1.Read it out

2.EXPLAIN WHY















Quotes that support “Slavery isn’t

bad for slaves…”

1.Read it out

2.EXPLAIN WHY IT IS A LIE! **

SlaveryNarrative of Frederick Douglass

Narrative

• Quotes from the first paragraphs of

his book

• Two (2) positions:

1. Slavery was terrible for slaves

2. Slavery corrupts slaveholders

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SlaveryLearning Objectives

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases in an excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

I can use common roots, prefixes, and suffixes as clues to the meaning of words in the book.

I can reread a complex text to better understand it.


VocabularyWrite in glossary notebook

• prefix = letters added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning

• suffix = letters added to the end of a root word to change its meaning


Excerpt # 1

• BALTIMORE partners today

• Read along as I read aloud

• First read = gist!

• Second read = Second read

questions

• Third read = Third read

questions


1. What do slaves not have knowledge about?


2. Who prevents slaves from having this knowledge?


Vocabulary

• deprived =

• privilege =


3. The root of inquiries is “quir” – meaning to seek or to ask.Based on this, what does the word inquiries mean?


4. Who was Frederick Douglass’s father?


5. Paraphrase this sentence into your own words:“He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.”


Vocabulary

• labor =

• hinder =


Vocabulary

• duration =

• hardships =


6. What was Frederick Douglass’s relationship with his mother like?


7. Paraphrase this sentence:“Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.”


8. Who did people think Douglass’s father was?


9. The suffix of odiousness is “–ness.” What does “–ness” mean?

Based on the meaning of –ness, what does “odiousness” mean?


Vocabulary

• condition=


10. Are the children of slave mothers free or slaves?


11.The root of gratification is grat.What does grat mean?

Based on the root, what does gratification mean?


Vocabulary

• hardened=


12. Who was cruel?

13. Who is being whipped?


Vocabulary

• gory =


14. Paraphrase the following sentence:“No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.”


Vocabulary

• spectacle =

Slavery Debate over Slavery

**Abolitionists both black and white people

Life of Frederick Douglass

VocabularyTriangular slave trade PlantationAbolitionist CropsSystem Racial InequalityEnforced labor

What do you want to add in this box from TODAY’s

reading?

Homework

• Be sure you have an independent reading book by ______________


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Slavery Module: Lesson seven