:: The Journey of a Slave ::

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The Journey of a Slave

• Kayla Becker
• Fall 2006

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Quick Write

• What are your earliest childhood memories?

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Share your memories with the class
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Imagine

• You are the same age
• You have the same family
• BUT
• You now are living on a plantation with 40-plus
  slaves
• You watch the daily interactions between the
  slaves and their masters at the plantation
• What do you assume your earliest childhood
  memories would consist of?

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Prior Knowledge

• Discuss concepts students remember discussing in
  our lesson about Vernacular Tradition
• Discuss recurring themes
• Discuss the relationships between literature and
  its historical period, culture and society

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Purpose of todays lesson

• General overview
• Discuss the text (narrative)
• Sequential/chronological order

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During reading

• Handout the worksheet with list of vocabulary
  words for todays text
• Throughout class today they will be defining
  these terms

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Todays text

• My Bondage and My Freedom
• By Frederick Douglass
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Think Aloud Strategy

• One student reads
• His/her partner tallies the comments
• Predictions, comments, relationships to your own
  life, questions you may have, put text in your
  own words, etc.
• At the end of each paragraph, summarize in your
  OWN words what you have just read.
• Switch roles every two paragraphs

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Think Aloud Chart
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Questions

• Frederick is living with his grandmother and
  grandfather at the beginning of the text. Why is
  he living with them and not with his parents?
  Where are his parents in relation to where he is
  at?
• What are the differences between a slave boys
  childhood and that of the white children of the
  slaveholder? Why is this important?
• How does Frederick feel about his mother?
• How does his relationship with his mother change
  after her death? Does he view her differently or
  the same? Why?

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RAFT Strategy

• Goal Take what you have read and turn it into a
  product that illustrates your understanding of
  the text.
• Role What role are you going to take on?
• Audience Who are you writing to?
• Format What product will best demonstrate your
  understanding of the text? (I.e. letter, action
  plan, newspaper article, etc.)
• Topic When, who or what? (I.e. Is it the same
  time period, who is going to be the main focus,
  what event is the centerpiece of the format you
  have chosen (letter, action plan, newspaper
  article, etc.)?

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Brainstorm!

• What are some ideas you have about the different
  types of RAFTs you could write for this
  assignment?
• Role
• Audience
• Format
• Topic

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