Equiano Intro Notes Page 50. Into Activity (KWL Chart) With your partner list all the things you know about slaves and slavery. Use sensory details that.

Equiano Intro NotesPage 50

Into Activity (KWL Chart) With your partner list all the things you

know about slaves and slavery. Use sensory details that explain the horrific

details about the life and or existence of a slave.

Note that sensory details include: sight, taste, touch, hear, and smell

KWL (con’t) With the same partner, discuss and write

down in your Cornell notes what you want to know about slavery and slave trade during the eighteen century

Objective and Content Standards Today we are transitioning into our next

piece in our unit of study of Encounters and Foundations to 1800. We will be looking at similarities and differences about the experiences of the Puritans versus that of Slaves.

Objective and Content (Con’t) The specific standard we will cover in the

narrative, “Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” is Reading Standards 2.5. This standard requires we analyze the author’s implicit and explicit philosophical beliefs about the subject

We will also cover, R. 3.1 analyzing the characteristics of this subgenre.

Lt. Francis Meynell’s Slave Deck of Albanoz

With a partner discuss this painting Please describe the details you see You will need to write your ideas down

because we will revisit this portrait

Important Vocabulary Assailant (n) attacker Distraction (n) mental upset Apprehension (n) unsure, or feelings of anxiety Alleviate (v) relieve Interspersed (v) placed as intervals Consternation (n) confusion resulting from fear Improvident (adj) careless Avarice (n) greed

Vocabulary Sharing Look at the vocabulary words found on

page 51. Discuss with your partner the relationship

between them Based on the vocabulary what might this

story be about

Slave Narrative Genre Many slaves told the stories of their

enslavement First one appeared in 1760 Narratives were filled with “accounts of

inhuman cruelty, horrendous suffering, the intense desire for freedom, successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, and religious meditations.”

Genre, con’t. Narratives were filled with “accounts of

inhuman cruelty, horrendous suffering, the intense desire for freedom, successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, and religious meditations.”

Slave narratives written specifically to support the abolitionist cause of ending slavery and the slave trade.

Persuasion They present sometimes subtle arguments

against the institution of slavery and the people that participate in it.

Common “arguments”: Whites are more abominable than those they claim are

“animals” Africans show more “humanity” than those that feel they

are superior “Christian” people acting contrary to Christian teachings

Equiano – Biographical Info Member of Ibo people from West Africa Kidnapped at 11 years old Sent to Barbados to work the sugar

plantations Later sold to a British military officer, then

to a Quaker merchant

Biography, con’t While working for the merchant, saved

enough money to purchase his freedom in 1766.

Became very active in the British abolitionist movement

Autobiography published in 1789. What other major world event happens in

1789?

The Autobiography Just as we required

you to write an autobiographical narrative freshmen year, you are now going to read a Olaudah Equiano’s narrative

This narrative gives a first hand account of the daily lives of slaves

The abolitionist) used these slave narratives in the 19 century to end slavery

Definitions of Implicit and Explicit

1. Implicit is the internal feelings, emotions, and struggles of the character. We often must make inferences by using context clues

2. Explicit is the external obstacles that occur in narration. These external forces are fully revealed in narration

Making Inferences A good strategy to use while reading is to

make an inference about the text. a. it is an educated guess b. requires that you look beyond the

surface c. requires you to be alert of passages or

phrases that give insight into the author’s beliefs about a subject

In Groups Students will be expected to work in groups

while listening and reading “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.”

Students will need to reread the text so to develop questions about Equiano’s experience

There are three major themes to keep in mind while addressing these questions

Questions Based on Equiano’s Argument

Whites are more abominable than those they claim are “animals”

Africans show more “humanity” than those that feel they are superior

“Christian” people acting contrary to Christian teachings

Groups of four (chosen by the teacher) 1. listen to audio 2. reread paragraph with group 3. after reading use Cornell notes to ask higher level questions about the

paragraph in question—make sure to write the page number.

Groups (con’t)

Groups (con’t) 4. after each member asks a question,

each will read his/her response to the group. 5. Each group member will share his/her

thoughts on the posed question 6. Students will then be expected to take Cornell

notes on the questions they believe relate to Equiano’s argument

Shareouts Be ready to share the information you

discussed within a classroom discussion In your discussions make sure to look for

key vocabulary words that will assist in a deeper more implicit understanding of the text

Make sure that you are writing key ideas about the discussion

KWL After we have read and discussed the

narrative of Olaudah Equiano, you will return to the same partner and discuss what you learned about slavery and the slave trade during the eighteenth century

questionPredict what might happen

to Equiano and his sister.

One prediction might be that they are kidnapped

Also, they can send one kidnapper out as a trap to get the kids down from the trees and then the rest would show up.

Summary Equiano describes how

he has to watch out for kidnappers, while parents are out working in the fields. Equiano and his sister hide in the trees so that the kidnappers couldn’t reach them. They signaled the road in order to ambush them.

Question He noticed a familiar road

and cries out but no one pays attention.

Predict what would happen after Equiano and his sister were carried off into a distance

Summary

Equiano and sister are kidnapped by two men and one women. Rushed to the woods with their hands tied and mouths covered. They went to a small house where they not allowed to eat I predict that they might be sold off as slaves

Question Explain why Equiano’s

first master was good to him

Predict Equiano’s other masters might treat him.

Summary They finally offered food

and then separated. He becomes depressed and doesn’t want to eat. He finally gets put with his first master and treated him well. The first wife of his master he looked at as a mother.

Page 56Question Explain why the crew

members beat him for not eating

Infer why Equiano is so scared to drink the liquor

Notes Some black people are paid

to kidnap Equiano and take him to a slave ship. He sees that other prisoners are chained together and becomes frightened. One of the crew members offers him liquor and he is too scared to take it and refuses it. A black person then offers the liquor and he drinks it.

Page 56 and 57Question Predict why they wanted

him to drink the liquor.

Notes Equiano passes out on

the ship, wakes up later and sees a group of black people in front of him. One man offered him liquor. At first he refused it, and later another man forced him to drink it.

Pg 57

Predict where they are going.

Predict on what they will do when they get to the new land.

The white man put him on a windlass when he refused to eat. He and the other blacks talk about where they white men came from and were convinced they were magic. Equiano was flogged for the first time. Equiano found people from his native country.

Page 58-59 Many people got sick and died and they didn’t

let too many people on the deck. For the first time he saw flying fish Equiano wanted to die Landed on Barbados Treated as objects Thought the people were magical because how

they could control the boats

Page 59 Christians act contrary to their beliefs “Do to others as you want done to you” Christians use them for their lust “the

luxury of lust” Separate family members Equiano believes that it is a new type of

horror