Slavery Module: Lesson eight

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• Entry Task: Roots, Prefixes & Suffixes

• Use the Reference Sheet from yesterday to complete this task

• When done, begin a third read of yesterday’s excerpt

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SlaveryLearning Objectives

I can analyze how specific excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass convey Douglass’s position on slavery.

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.

SlaveryNarrative of Frederick Douglass

Roots, Prefixes & SuffixesHow did you do?

• un= not able =

• unmanageable=



• dis=

• disposition =



• de=

• devoted=


Excerpt # 1• THIRD READ today• Bigger picture…What is the overall

story?• HOW and WHY is he telling that

story?

• ROCHESTER partners today


1. Frederick Douglass begins his story with an example of how slaves are mistreated. What example does he give?


2. Paragraph 3 discusses Douglass’s parents.What does it show about how slavery affected children’s relationships with their parents?


3. What do these words mean: “to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child?”

How do they add to the overall point of the paragraph?


4. How does this information about Douglass’s mother connect to what you learned in articles you read about him?


5. How does having power over their slaves seem to affect the overseer and the owner?


6. What scene does Douglass vividly describe?

Why do you think he describes it in such detail?

How does this serve his purpose?


Purpose• Stronger readers with complex text!• Work with partner• Question on PURPOSE after the

excerpt** How does this excerpt support the two positions Douglass held about slavery?


1. Slavery is terrible for slaves.

** Be able to point to a specific paragraph!


2. Slavery corrupts slave holders.

** Be able to point to a specific paragraph!


Purpose• Will write with this information• Will need to provide evidence from

this text• “Constructed Response”

• Must re-read the excerpt (4th time!)

• Many parts to the question!

Homework

• One-paragraph Constructed Response

• Be sure to answer ALL PARTS of the question!

HINT! Quote sandwiches answer questions completely!!


Slavery Module: Lesson eight

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