From Man to Slave: January 11, 2018

Focus: What does it take to disempower a human?

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1. Warming up with original excerpts from slaves, slave owners, 19th century documents, and historians (travelling groups of 3-4) with this reflection sheet

2. Following up with discussions of yesterday's images, today's quotations, and last night's Douglass reading:

• How were slaves physically disempowered?
• How were slaves socially disempowered?
• How were slaves mentally/emotionally disempowered?

• Tricky question: How did slavery also disempower slave masters? In other words, what did the practice of slavery take away from the slave owners? Take a look at Chapter 6 in Douglass.

3. Getting set up for Chapter 10 by exploring at least 4 definitions of the word "root"

4. Reading Chapter 10 together, marking up lines that reference...

• The root: Which definition best applies to the root's role in this chapter?
• Power lost and gained

5. Quick exit ticket: Completing the Thursday column of your virtue chart

HW:

If we did not finish reading and annotating Chapter 10 in Douglass, please finish it tonight.