MONDAY: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass First Read
Unit Goal: Students will explore how African Americans and women gained new freedoms after a bloody civil war
Selection Objective: After Close Reading Lincoln’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass students will identify rhetorical features in the speech, including word choice and parallelism, or the use of similar grammatical structures to express new ideas of freedom.
Agenda: 1.)Morgan Freeman2.) What to the Slave is the Fourth of July: Says-Means-Matters
Homework: The Individual and Society Final Portfolio Checklist, Notebook Due Friday
TUESDAY: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass 2nd Read
Unit Goal: Students will explore how African Americans and women gained new freedoms after a bloody civil war
Selection Objective: After Close Reading Lincoln’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass students will identify rhetorical features in the speech, including word choice and parallelism, or the use of similar grammatical structures to express new ideas of freedom.
Agenda: 1.) Readings: Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover , James Earl Jones 2.) What to the Slave is the Fourth of July: SOAPS
Homework: The Individual and Society Final Portfolio Checklist, Notebook Due Friday
WEDNESDAY: Compare Lincoln v. Douglass
Unit Goal: Students will explore how African Americans and women gained new freedoms after a bloody civil war
Selection Objective: After reading speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, students will be able to summarize views of FREEDOM depicted by both authors..
Agenda: 1.) Frederick Douglass By Robert Hayden 2.) Compare and Contrast Summary
Homework: The Individual and Society Final Portfolio Checklist, Notebook Due Friday
THURSDAY: Quarter 2 Benchmark
FRIDAY: Dialogue Poems
Unit Goal: Students will explore how African Americans and women gained new freedoms after a bloody civil war
Objective: Evaluate point of view and perspective of by writing Dialogue Poems.
I. Pre-Writing: “The 54th Massachusetts” Dialogue Poems Description & Examples
II. Writing: Dialogue Poems