Monday, September 24, 2012 Today’s Agenda: 1. Pass out HW Packet #3 Stamp Sheet for the Week of 9/24 – 9/28 2. Bellringer (B.R.) – Copy vocabulary words 3. Author’s Background – Olaudah Equiano 4. Notes: Buildbackground – The Slave Experience 5. Read from “Narrative of Olaudah Equiano” HW: 1) Vocabulary Circle Maps due Thursday (9/27) 2) Author’s Background: Olaudah Equiano 3) Notes: Buildbackground – The Slave Experience

Take out a sheet of paper and title: Bellringer: Week of 9/24-9/28 Monday (9/24): Turn to Page 51 of your textbook and copy down the 9 vocabulary words along with the definitions and parts of speech.

1. assailant (n.) – attacker 2. distraction (n.) – mental disturbance or distress 3. apprehensions (n.) – feelings of anxiety or dread 4. alleviate (v.) – relieve; reduce 5. interspersed (adj.) – placed at intervals 6. commodious (adj.) – spacious 7. consternation (n.) – confusion resulting from fear or shock 8. improvident (adj.) – careless; not providing for the future 9. avarice (n.) - greed Vocabulary Words: “Olaudah Equiano”

Take out a sheet of paper and title: Author’s Background: Olaudah Equiano Turn to Page 50 of your textbook and read about Olaudah Equiano. Then create a bubble map and fill in any interesting or insightful information that you’ve read. Olaudah Equiano

Turn to the back side and title: More about the Writer In 1762, four years before Equiano finally bought his freedom, he thought he was about to become a free man. The British naval officer he had served with during the Seven Years’ war had promised to free Equiano after the war.

Turn to the back side and title: More about the Writer Instead, he tricked him and sold him to a ship captain, who brought Equiano to the West Indies: “Thus, at the moment I expected all my toils to end, was I plunged…in a new slavery: in comparison of which all my service hitherto had been perfect freedom…”

Turn to the back side and title: More about the Writer The name Olaudah means “one favored,” expecially with the ability to speak well. Equiano spoke out through his autobiography, which is one of the classic slave narrative of all times.

At the bottom of More about the Writer, title: Literary Focus Autobiography is a firsthand account of a writer’s own life. The publication of slave narratives was encouraged by abolitionists in the nineteenth century to fuel the crusade against slavery. An inference is an educated guess based on what you already know and what you learn from reading a text. To make an inference, you look beyond what’s being stated directly in a text and think about what is implicit, or hinted at.

Map of West Indies

Take out a sheet of paper and title: Notes- Build Background: Slave Trade Africans enslaved one another. Slave catchers or kidnappers were other Africans. According to Herbert S. Klein, “All African slaves were purchased from local African owners…European buyers were totally dependent on African sellers for the delivery of slaves.”

The Slave Ship Experience

Read “Olaudah Equiano” Turn to Page 52 of your textbook