Chapter 1- The Pathway to Freedom

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Chapter 1- The Pathway to Freedom

• Writing a Personal Narrative

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Freewriting

• Freewriting- Just write what is on your mind.
• Dont worry about errors, grammar, and if it
  doesnt make sense. Just write!
• What is the relationship between these two
  people?
• How do you think they feel about each other?

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Slavery

• What do you know about slavery?
• What does the word slavery mean to you?
• Are there different kinds of slavery?

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Brief History of Slavery

• Harriet Tubman- Moses of the Underground
  Railroad

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History of Slavery

• Sojourner Truth- Abolitionist
• Aint I A Woman speech

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History of Slavery

• John Brown- Abolitionist
• Advocated fighting (insurrection) as a means to
  end slavery
• Led Bleeding Kansas and Harpers Ferry

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Frederick Douglass

• Aboltionist
• Firm belief in the equality of all people

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Identifying Nouns and Adjectives

• A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
• Examples?
• Can you identify the nouns in this sentence?
• Douglass cleverness helped him to escape slavery
  in the South.

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Identifying Nouns and Adjectives

• An adjective describes a noun.
• Examples?
• Identify the adjective in this sentence.
• Then, identify the noun.
• Frederick Douglass was a courageous hero.

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Adjectives can be nouns?

• Adjectives have corresponding noun forms.
• For example
• Childish (adj.)- childishness (n.)
• Stop acting childish!
• Cruel (adj.)- Cruelty (n.)
• Teachers can be cruel sometimes.
• I oppose cruelty to animals.

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Noun or adjective?

• Dont be foolish! Suzanne is not going to fail
  you.
• Your foolishness in class is getting out of
  control.
• Koreans have been very generous to me so far.
• Giving food to the poor is a sign of generosity.

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Point of View Writing

• Choose one situation and write a letter as if you
  were a character from Douglass Narrative.
• Situation 1
• You are Mr. or Mrs. Auld. Describe in a letter to
  a friend what happened when Frederick Douglass
  began learning to read. Explain how you feel
  about this situation and why.
• Situation 2
• You are one of the young people who let Frederick
  Douglass use your books. Write a letter to your
  parents explaining why you helped a slave learn
  to read and how you feel about what you did.

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Agenda

• Articles
• Point of View Writing
• Discussion and Summary?
• Paragraph Unity
• Peer Editing
• Habitual Past

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Articles (in a nutshell)

• A/AN Something that is general.
• Example This is a book.
• This is an egg.
• THE Something that is specific.
• Example Take out your writing book. Open the
  book to pg. 5.

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Point of View Writing

• Exchange letters with a partner. Read your
  partners letter and write a reply to it in your
  notebook.
• Reply 1
• If your partner wrote as Mr. or Mrs. Auld, write
  a reply as a friend.
• Reply 2
• If your partner wrote as a young person who
  helped Frederick Douglass learn to read, write a
  reply as one of the young persons parents.

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Open for Discussion

• Discuss these questions in a small group.
• Each member of the group should choose one
  question and take notes on the groups answers.
• Afterwards, write a four to five sentence summary
  of your groups discussion on the question you
  selected.

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Discussion Questions

1. Consider the statement, Work is freedom. Would
   Frederick Douglass agree or disagree with this
   statement? Do you think work is freedom?
2. Did Frederick Douglass think that education is
   the pathway to freedom? Do you agree? Is
   education enough to make someone free?
3. How are childhood and slavery similar to or
   different from each other?
4. Who is made less human by slavery, the master or
   the slave? Explain your answer.

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First Writing Assignment

• Your Task
• Write a personal narrative in one or two
  paragraphs. Each paragraph should have at least
  five sentences.
• Two choices. Choose one
• Tell a story about your past that describes your
  personality and the people around you at that
  time. Explain how your life experiences
  influenced you.
• Write one or two paragraphs about a problem you
  had to overcome or decision that you had to make.
  Write in the first person using the pronoun I.

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Paragraph Unity

• Each paragraph of an essay must have unity.
• A paragraph must have one main idea.
• Every sentence in the paragraph must be relevant
  to that main idea.

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Paragraph Unity-Example

• As you manage your time, think about how long
  certain activities will take. A common mistake is
  to underestimate the time needed to do something
  simple. For example, when you are planning to go
  to the store, there may be a line of people. Last
  week in line I met a woman I went to high school
  with, so we chatted. It turns out she has two
  children just the same age as mine. When you are
  estimating time for a more complex activity, such
  as reading, block out more time than you think
  you will need. It is better to allow too much
  time than too little.
• .

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Homework

• For Thursday, please work on a rough draft of
  your personal narrative.
• Print out one copy of your narrative and bring it
  to class.
• Please e-mail me a copy of your personal
  narrative before Thursdays class
  (suzanne.bardasz_at_gmail.com). Write the subject
  Personal Narrative on your e-mail.

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Instructions for Peer Evaluation

1. Read your first draft to a partner and allow your
   partner to see your paragraph(s). Then listen to
   your partner read his or her personal narrative
   and read it yourself.
2. Write down the detail that is the most
   interesting to you.
3. Do not comment on grammar at this time unless an
   error makes the ideas difficult to understand.
4. Write your comments as suggestions.

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Habitual Past vs. Simple Past

• What are the differences between these three
  sentences?
• I watch the children.
• 2. I watched the children.
• 3. I used to watch the children.

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Habitual Past with Used to and Would

• Used to describes something that happened many
  times in the past.
• No longer do it in the present.
• Structure used to base form of verb
• I used to carry bread with me every day.
• Any other examples?

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Practice

• Write five sentences that describe what you used
  to do when you were a child.
• When I was a child, I used to
• Dance around the house.

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Habitual past vs. Simple Past

• Simple Past- Describes something that happened
  only once in the past.
• Habitual Past- Describes something that happened
  many times in the past.
• Examples
• I used to carry bread with me every day.
• I carried bread with me.

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Which style is better?

• My mother made her journeys to see me at night.
  My mother would lie down and go to sleep. My
  mother left in the morning.
• My mother made her journeys to see me at night.
  She would lie down and go to sleep, but she left
  in the morning.