slavery module: lesson three
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7th Grade ELA NYS Common Core Curriculum Module 3, Unit 1TRANSCRIPT
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Slaves were brought over from Africa through the triangular slave trade. Slaves were bought for cash crops, like cotton, sugar and tobacco, which were traded in England for manufactured goods like rum and guns. The enforced labor of slaves made white Southern plantation owners a lot of money…
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Equity Sticks
• What does equity mean?
• Think about question
• I will put out a name…you must
answer!
• How can we be respectful to the talk?
• Let’s try it to finish homework review…
…..Many slave owners also believed in ______________________________________ and thought slaves were inferior to whites because of the color of their skin. They used this reasoning to justify their harsh treatment of African Americans. While there were many in the South who economically benefitted from slavery, Frederick Douglass was a famous ___________________ who fought for the end of slavery. A former slave himself, he witnessed the horrors of the _______________ firsthand.
SlaveryLearning Objectives
I can draw conclusions about slavery in America and cite specific textual evidence to support them.
What do the highlighted
words mean?
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Equity Sticks
• How will learning about slavery in
America prepare you to read
Douglass’s autobiography?
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Historical Context
• Work with shoulder partner
• Will add to your anchor chart today
• Make predictions by Analyzing
Images
• Write what you observe
• Talk with partner and make
conclusion
British Slave Ship
A Virginia Slave Group
Slaves in a Cotton Field
A Slave’s Whip Marks
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“The Slave Trade” (PBS Episode)
• Excerpt from Freedom: A History
of US
• Read along as I read aloud
• Notice definitions at bottom
• Vocab from yesterday, too
• Underline important phrases
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“The Slave Trade” (PBS Episode)
• Equity Sticks….
• What did you underline?
• Let’s work together to answer
questions!
Question: Paragraph 2
Answers: 3-4 sentences!! **
1. What were the three main steps involved in the triangular slave trade?
2. What were conditions like on the slave ships? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
SlaveryText-Dependent Questions
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“The Slave Trade” (PBS Episode)
• Work with your shoulder partner to
answer next two Text-Dependent
Questions…
Question: Paragraphs 3,4
Answers: 3-4 sentences!! **
3. Why were there so many more slaves in the South than the North?
4. Why did the Black Codes prohibit teaching slaves to read and write?
SlaveryText-Dependent Questions
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“The Slave Trade” (PBS Episode)
• Try the last one on your own…
• Be ready to share!
Question: Paragraph 5
Answers: 3-4 sentences!! **
5. How did some Southerners use racial differences to justify slavery?
SlaveryText-Dependent Questions
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Turn and talk
1. Which one of the predictions from the
images did your reading confirm?
2. How did the reading extend your
conclusions?
Homework
• “Abolition” excerpt
• Read article
• Answer the eight (8) Text-dependent Questions
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