Warm-Up

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Warm-Up

• This semester we are exploring two foundational
  questions explored in early American writing.
  What is an American? And How should American act?
  
• Based on the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an
  Angry God, how would Jonathan Edwards answer
  these questions?
• Use evidence and examples found in the sermon.

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From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano

• By Olaudah Equiano

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During Todays Lesson

• To fulfill CA Focus Standard 2.4 Make reasonable
  assertions about the authors arguments by using
  elements of the text to defend and clarify
  interpretations.
• You will learn about the effect of slavery on
  American society and its attempt to answer the
  questions What is an American? How should an
  American act?
• Evidence of your learning will be shown through a
  dialectical journal and summary which identify
  the purpose and tone of Olaudah Equianos
  autobiographical narrative.

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EARLY AMERICAN WRITING

• Sermons Deliver a religious message. Uses Bible
  as support for message.
• Autobiographies Deliver a political and cultural
  message. Uses life event as support for message.
• Political Documents Deliver a political message.
  Uses events and philosophy as support for
  message.

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Slave Narratives Purpose

• Document slave life primarily in the American
  South from the invaluable perspective of
  first-hand experience.
• Reveal the struggles of people of color in the
  North, as fugitives from the South recorded the
  disparities between America's ideal of freedom
  and the reality of racism in the so-called "free
  states.
• The most influential slave narratives were
  written to educate white readers about both the
  realities of slavery as an institution and
  persuade them to join the Abolitionist movement
  and see black people as individuals deserving of
  full human rights.

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Before you watch preview video, set up circle
map.
As you watch video, fill in circle map with
important information about Equianos background.
Olaudah Equiano
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After you watch preview video, use circle map
info to write background paragraph.
Use the following paragraph frame _______can
be described as ______. He was born ________ and
spent most of his life________. While ________,
he became interested in ________. Additionally,
________________. His writing attempts to
______________ by _______________.
As you watch video, fill in circle map with
important information about Equianos background.
Olaudah Equiano
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Tone the attitude a writer takes toward the
subject of a work

• Objective (Informational) v. Subjective
  (Emotional)

Tone is dependent on diction (word choice) and
style.
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TONE TOOL Use this to help you identify
specific tone of a text. Step 1 Is it
neutral, positive, or negative? Step 2 Go
through the list and find appropriate and
specific word. Lets practice
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Predict What is the tone?

• Generally when the grown people in the
  neighborhood were gone far in the fields to
  labor, the children assembled together in some of
  the neighbors premises to play, and commonly some
  of us used to get up a tree to look for an
  assailant or kidnapper that might come upon us .
  
• It was in vain that we besought them not to
  part us she was torn from me and immediately
  carried away, while I was left in a state of
  distraction not to be described.
• The small relief which her presence gave me
  from pin was gone, and the wretchedness of my
  situation was redoubled by my anxiety after her
  fate and my apprehensions lest her sufferings
  should be greater than min, when I could not be
  with her to alleviate them.
• Here I first saw and tasted coconuts, which I
  thought superior to any nuts I had ever tasted
  before and the trees which were loaded were also
  interspersed amongst the houses, which had
  commodious shades adjoining and were in the same
  manner as ours, the insides being neatly
  plastered and whitewashed.
• One of the blacks therefore took it from him
  and gave it to me, and I took a little down my
  palate, which instead of reviving me, as they
  thought it would threw me into the greatest
  consternation at the strange feeling it produce,
  having never tasted such any liquor before.

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Predict What is the tone?

• This produced copious perspirations, so that the
  air soon became unfit for respiration from a
  variety of loathsome smells , and brought on a
  sickness among the slaves of which many died,
  thus falling victims to the improvident avarice,
  as I may call it, of their purchasers

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TICKET OUT THE DOOR

• Choose one of the prompts to provide evidence of
  todays learning
• Todays lecture on ___________________
• reminded/made me think that___________.
• Today, I learned that _________________.
• Although I understand ______, I dont get ____.
• Something I am still confused about and dont
  understand__________.

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9.27 Warm Up
Yesterday we discussed the rhetorical
(persuasive) function of slave narratives. Use
your notes to write a paragraph that defines
slave narratives and explains the rhetorical
function of these narratives by completing the
following frame. Slave narratives could be
described as _____ _____________. These told the
story of ________ in order to ____________________
____________.
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As you read

• Compare the treatment Equiano receives during his
  enslavement in Africa with the treatment he
  receives on the slave ship.

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After you read

• EXPLAIN the purpose of the narrative and identify
  how Equiano uses sensory details to achieve his
  intended effect
• Completing the Dialectical Journal.
• Writing a summary of the text.

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