For Tuesday, you will be reading two narratives. One is by Frederick Douglass and is an excerpt from his autobiography, My Bondage, My Freedom and is the red book from pages 426-430. The other is a handout from Harriet Jacob's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, and will be read on hand out.
You may pick up a handout of the Jacobs piece after school today, or wait until Monday to pick up the handout.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here.
Due Friday
You will be reading the John Brown articles in your white book and considering the question: is John Brown best seen as a patriot or a terrorist? (731-754). You will be gathering evidence from your articles on a 4 quadrant chart that you will turn in for points. The evidence that you list should be a combination of paraphrase and direct quotations and contain a parenthetical citation of author and page number. Each quadrant concept is explained in more detail below.
Patriot:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as patriotic.
Terrorist:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as terrorism.
Refutations and outside examples that support Patriotism:
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your articles where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, your author is claiming he is a terrorist, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a patriot.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a patriot.
Refutations and outside examples that support Terrorist
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your article where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, they are claiming he is a patriot, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a terrorist.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a terrorist.
And if you'd like more reading:
Here is the text of the Bush eulogy, which would give you an opportunity to consider how much of an impact speaker can play on the purpose as well. It's important to note the person delivering the eulogy is his son and former president George W. Bush.
