This document provides instruction and content for a lesson on Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It includes entry tasks on roots, prefixes and suffixes. The learning objectives are to analyze how excerpts from Douglass's narrative convey his position on slavery and use word roots to understand meanings. Students are instructed to reread an excerpt and answer comprehension questions to understand Douglass's story and purpose. They are then asked to explain how the excerpt supports Douglass's two positions on slavery through specific evidence. Homework involves a constructed response using a quote sandwich to fully answer the question.
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Analyze Douglass's Position on Slavery in Narrative Excerpt
1. DO NOW
• 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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Learning 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.
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Excerpt # 1
• THIRD READ today
• Bigger picture…What is the overall story?
• HOW and WHY is he telling that story?
• ROCHESTER partners today
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass
1. Frederick Douglass begins his story with an
example of how slaves are mistreated.
What example does he give?
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2. Paragraph 3 discusses Douglass’s parents.
What does it show about how slavery affected
children’s relationships with their parents?
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass
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?
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass
4. How does this information about Douglass’s
mother connect to what you learned in articles
you read about him?
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5. How does having power over their slaves
seem to affect the overseer and the owner?
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6. What scene does Douglass vividly describe?
Why do you think he describes it in such
detail?
How does this serve his purpose?
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass
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?
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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!
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Homework
• One-paragraph Constructed Response
• Be sure to answer ALL PARTS of the
question!
HINT! Quote sandwiches answer questions
completely!!