April 30, 2013

1. April 30, 2013 • Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, and 10 study guide’s are due tomorrow • Today: • Exam Schedule • Prepare for Test Tomorrow – • Essay Response • Homework: • Study for Test – remember to bring all the chapters + any notes you took on the essay questions

2. Paragraph StructureforEssay Response Question: State your Claim – how would you answer the question? Provide Proof – what evidence do you have to back up your answer? (State chapter and paragraph #) Who Cares?How does your proof connect to your answer?

3. Essay Response • Question: Why did Frederick Douglass take on the motto “Trust No Man”? • State your Claim – how would you answer the question? Douglass took on the motto “Trust No Man” because he had a fear of both the white and black people even in the new territory of New York. • Provide Proof – what evidence do you have to back up your answer? In chapter 10, Douglass says, “There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends” (p. 4). He said, “I saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust (p. 4).” • Who Cares? How does your proof connect to your answer? • Even though Douglass made it to a free state, he was surrounded by people he knew nothing about. He was not willing to risk his escape by confiding in another person because he was still a fugitive slave.

4. Essay Response - Paragraph • Douglass took on the motto “Trust No Man” because he had a fear of both the white and black people even in the new territory of New York.In chapter 10, Douglass says, “There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends” (p. 4). He said, “I saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust (p. 4).” Even though Douglass made it to a free state, he was surrounded by people he knew nothing about. He was not willing to risk his escape by confiding in another person because he was still a fugitive slave.

5. Essay Response • Question: How does Douglass use details about life under slavery to encourage feelings against slavery in the readers? • State your Claim – how would you answer the question? Douglass told real life experiences that he went through in order to convince readers slavery was wrong. • Provide Proof – what evidence do you have to back up your answer? In chapter one, Frederick Douglass said, “My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant…” (p. 3). He also recounts and said, “I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine…” (ch. 1/p. 8). Douglass continues in chapter 2 explaining how pitiful the slaves excitement was when they were “rewarded” with a small allowance every month at the Great House Farm (p. 8). Finally, Douglass even pulled in evidence of the cruelty of slavery when he said, “Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me”(ch. 7/p. 2). • Who Cares?How does your proof connect to your answer? Douglass shows how wrong slavery is by using examples we, as the readers, can relate with. He starts off using the cruelty of the overseers to separate loved ones from each other, but ends with how slavery not only was cruel to a slave, but that it had life changing effects on the once peace loving mistress.

6. Essay Response - Paragraph • Douglass told real life experiences that he went through in order to convince readers slavery was wrong. In chapter one, Frederick Douglass said, “My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant…” (p. 3). He also recounts said, “I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine…” (ch. 1/p. 8). Douglass continues in chapter 2 explaining how pitiful the slaves excitement was when they were “rewarded” with a small allowance very month at the Great House Farm (p. 8). Finally, Douglass even pulled in evidence of the cruelty of slavery when he said, “Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me” (ch. 7/p. 2). Douglass shows how wrong slavery is by using examples we, as the readers, can relate with. He starts off using the cruelty of the overseers to separate loved ones from each other, but ends with how slavery not only was cruel to a slave, but that it had life changing effects on the once peace loving mistress.