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!