Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Director 10-13
How did it make you feel when Emma saw Fanny in New York?
Would you have fled to Canada if you were in this same situation? Why/why not?
If you could change the ending, would you? Why? How would you change it?
Monday, October 10, 2011
Vocabulary Ch 10-13
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Connector 10-13
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Connector 7-9
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Director Ch 7-9
Vocab Ch 7-9
"You done wrong this day and Satan is going to put you on the fire like you was pork ribs at a barbecue." -Mattie (pg 103-104)
"... the grief weighing us down like we carrying mules on our shoulders." -Will (pg 105)
"...jumped the broom" -Joe (114)
The slaves vocabulary is very descriptive and full of symbolism and metaphors. Their grammar has several errors, but their colorful language is very interesting to study.
Investigator Ch 5-6
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/wahl.slavery.us
Investigator Ch 7-9

Connecter Ch 5-6
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(DOCID+@lit(lcrbmrpt2305div7))
The above link tells the love story of Jeffrey and Dorcas. It is taken from a pamphlet titled “What became of the slaves on a Georgia plantation? : Great auction sale of slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859. A sequel to Mrs. Kemble's Journal” that Julius Lester drew a lot of the novel from. The story from the pamphlet is a little different from the book, because it says that Dorcas was sold with a family of four others, and that is why Jeffrey’s master will not buy her.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(DOCID+@lit(lcrbmrpt2305div6))
The pamphlet also has a small section about Bob and Mary, characters portrayed in Ch 5, that you can access from the above link!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Discussion Ch 5-6
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Vocab Ch 5-6
Monday, September 26, 2011
Vocab Ch 1-4 Day of Tears
Connector 1-4
This site actually lists out the names and prices of the slaves sold in the Butler auction. It has other notes that the author of the site found during research. It's actually a really cool website, so check it out!
The Butler auction is often referred to as "the weeping time," which explains why the book was given its' title.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2918.html
"It is a dreadful affair, however, selling these hereditary Negroes. . . . Families will not be separated, that is to say, husbands and wives, parents and young children. But brothers and sisters of mature age, parents and children of mature age, all other relations and the ties of home and long association will be violently severed. It will be a hard thing for Butler to witness and it is a monstrous thing to do. Yet it is done every day in the South. It is one among the many frightful consequences of slavery and contradicts our civilization, our Christianity, or Republicanism. Can such a system endure, is it consistent with humanity, with moral progress? These are difficult questions, and still more difficult is it to say, what can be done? The Negroes of the South must be slaves or the South will be Africanized. Slavery is better for them and for us than such a result."
-Philadelphia socialite Sidney George Fisher regarding the Butler auction
http://www.savannahga.gov/cityweb/rlibcat.nsf/f0bad60b4a15a12785256b1b006ac5ad/3e173fa8463ec3f6852572ec00412ebd?OpenDocument
This website is from the city of Savannah, GA. It discusses the different laws and the timeline regarding slavery in Savannah.
Other books:
Saving Savannah
Savannah Tempest: the Hidden Savannah
Friday, September 23, 2011
Investigator Ch 1-4

Thursday, September 22, 2011
Discussion Director Questions Chapters 1-4!
2. Why do you think the master was able to get custody of the two girls?
3. Do you think master and Frances are wrong for their thoughts, or is it not their fault because that's the way they were raised?
4. What do you think will happen to Emma?