Lystra M. Richardson
Objective
Students will compare actual accounts of slavery with their ideas of what slavery was like. Students will begin writing in response journals.
Material
Students’ onepage essays from previous lesson. Julius Lester’s
To Be A Slave.
Procedure
The teacher may call on volunteers to read aloud their essays on what they imagined slavery was like. These essays will be kept in students’ writing folders to be used later in comparison with accounts from the book. The teacher then begins reading
To Be A Slave
. Depending on the class, the teacher may choose to do the reading or ask for volunteers.
Closure
Time should be allowed before the end of class for discussion and for students to begin writing in their response journals as they compare their previously held notions of slavery with the actual accounts from the text. As they write their response to the text, students should be guided to include any feelings they have at this point as well as any new, interesting or disturbing information
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they gleaned from the text.
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