December 3, 2013

1. December 3, 2013

2. Copy this sentence on page 89. “Gillygave little William Ernest the most fearful face in all her collection of scary looks, a cross between Count Dracula and Godzilla."

3. ________gave ______the most ______face in all her collection of _____looks, a cross between _________________________.

4. Which historical document do you think is the most important to America? Declaration of Independence Constitution of the United States Bill of Rights Emancipation Proclamation

5. Use your notes to complete the graphic organizer. This will help you organize your reasoning to support your idea.

6. Frederick Douglass

7. Excerpt from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. “I have often been asked how I felt when I first found myself on free soil…A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the ‘quick round of blood,’ I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: ‘I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.’ Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil.”

8. “I have often been asked how I felt when I first found myself on free soil…A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the ‘quick round of blood,’ I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: ‘I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.’ Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil.”

9. Which word best describes the tone of Douglass in the excerpt? Miserable Triumphant Unemotional Judgmental