Bellringer Write a minimum of 2 COMPLETE SENTENCES responding to the quote to the right from Frederick Douglass.

“Learning to read & Write” By Frederick Douglass Lesson 1

I Can… Determine a writer’s point of view on a given topic. Examine how an author develops his point of view. 9-10.RI.CS.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

You Will Need… Your copy of From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass starting on page 271 of your purple guidebooks Paper Writing utensil

A Bit About Our Author Frederick Douglass was a social reformer from the 1800s. He was a black man and a slave who escaped the South and became an abolitionist in the North.

Shape Assignments STARS—page 271-272 (stop at “taking the ell”) Read your assigned section of the text and complete the following: Star specific details about Douglass’s experience that help you understand his point of view. Summarize the section in the margin. If you get stuck on a tough word, check the chart on page 276 of your purple guidebook. STARS—page 271-272 (stop at “taking the ell”) HEARTS—page 272 (starting with “the plan”) through page 273 (stop at “every storm”) SQUARES—page 273 (starting with “I often found”) through page 274 (stop at “learn to write”) CIRCLES—page 274 (starting with “the idea”) through page 275 (stop at the end of the text)

Color Groups You have 12 minutes. USE YOUR TIME WISELY! Share your summary with your color group. As you listen to your peers share their work, you should write brief summaries in the margins of the text for the sections you did not read. You have 12 minutes. 3 minutes per section! USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

Section 1: Douglass’s mistress begins teaching him to read, but then she stopped because her husband told her to. Over time the mistress lost her commitment to helping others and came to be very opposed to slaves having an education. Once Douglass learned the alphabet, however, he was determined to keep learning, despite being watched by his mistress to make sure he was not continuing to learn to read. Possible Answer

Section 2: Douglass continued learning to read from the white boy she met on the street while running errands. As he read and learned more, he began to feel upset because he would never be free. He even began to wish he hadn’t learned to read so that he wouldn’t know what he was missing and feel so upset about it. Possible Answer

Section 3: Douglass has an inner struggle and feels like he wants to die, but then he learns more about the abolitionist movement and decides that he will learn to write and then he will escape to the north. Possible Answer

Section 4: Douglass teaches himself to write a few letters by copying the labels he saw on pieces of wood in the shipyard. He used this knowledge to challenge the white boys in the street to a writing contest, which helped him learn eve more letters. Finally, used the old copy-books from his mistress’s son to practice his writing. Possible Answer

Group Work Highlight words and phrases that evoke IMAGERY. Discussion Question: What patterns and contrasts do you see in the highlighted words and phrases? Choose THREE words or phrases and complete the analyzing language handout on page 277 of your purple guidebooks for those words and/or phrases.

Poster Time Use the markers and butcher paper provided to create a poster answering the questions to the left.

Independent Practice On your own sheet of paper, respond to the question below using CCC format. What is Douglass’s point of view, and how does he develop his point of view?