10/15/08

Aim: What are slaves taught to think of the North, and why are they depicted as inferior?

Do Now: Write about a time when you were either deceived/lead to think about something that was not true. I recall a time when…

Comprehension Check:
What do slaveholders pride themselves on?
How does Jacobs’ literacy prove valuable to herself and community?

Interpretive:
Why does Jacobs say that liberty “is more valuable than life” (43)?
Why has northerners proved to be “apt scholars?” (44)
Why does says that she admits that the “black man is inferior?” (43)

Cooperative Learning:
Cite from the text as many instances where the characters suffers further dehumanization and degradation in "The Lover"
"The Lover"

Character

Example of Dehumanization/Degradation

Works Cited

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Connect to World
Where in today’s society that we are witnesses to “liberty more valuable than life”?

Homework:
Research the Fugitive Slave Law Act
Was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
Research the Mason and Dixon Line
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were the two survivors who mapped out this boundary between the northern and southern states (free and slave).
Read Chapters IX, X, XI. Getting very intense.