Equiano Intro Notes

1. Equiano Intro Notes Page 50

2. Into Activity (KWL Chart) • With your partner list all the things you know about slaves and slavery. • Use sensory details that explain the horrific details about the life and or existence of a slave. Note that sensory details include: sight, taste, touch, hear, and smell

3. KWL (con’t) • With the same partner, discuss and write down in your Cornell notes what you want to know about slavery and slave trade during the eighteen century

4. Objective and Content Standards • Today we are transitioning into our next piece in our unit of study of Encounters and Foundations to 1800. We will be looking at similarities and differences about the experiences of the Puritans versus that of Slaves.

5. Objective and Content (Con’t) • The specific standard we will cover in the narrative, “Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” is Reading Standards 2.5. This standard requires we analyze the author’s implicit and explicit philosophical beliefs about the subject • We will also cover, R. 3.1 analyzing the characteristics of this subgenre.

6. Lt. Francis Meynell’s Slave Deck of Albanoz • With a partner discuss this painting • Please describe the details you see • You will need to write your ideas down because we will revisit this portrait

8. Important Vocabulary • Assailant (n) attacker • Distraction (n) mental upset • Apprehension (n) unsure, or feelings of anxiety • Alleviate (v) relieve • Interspersed (v) placed as intervals • Consternation (n) confusion resulting from fear • Improvident (adj) careless • Avarice (n) greed

9. Vocabulary Sharing • Look at the vocabulary words found on page 51. • Discuss with your partner the relationship between them • Based on the vocabulary what might this story be about

10. Slave Narrative Genre • Many slaves told the stories of their enslavement • First one appeared in 1760 • Narratives were filled with “accounts of inhuman cruelty, horrendous suffering, the intense desire for freedom, successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, and religious meditations.”

11. Genre, con’t. • Narratives were filled with “accounts of inhuman cruelty, horrendous suffering, the intense desire for freedom, successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, and religious meditations.” • Slave narratives written specifically to support the abolitionist cause of ending slavery and the slave trade.

12. Persuasion • They present sometimes subtle arguments against the institution of slavery and the people that participate in it. • Common “arguments”: • Whites are more abominable than those they claim are “animals” • Africans show more “humanity” than those that feel they are superior • “Christian” people acting contrary to Christian teachings

13. Equiano – Biographical Info • Member of Ibo people from West Africa • Kidnapped at 11 years old • Sent to Barbados to work the sugar plantations • Later sold to a British military officer, then to a Quaker merchant

14. Biography, con’t • While working for the merchant, saved enough money to purchase his freedom in 1766. • Became very active in the British abolitionist movement • Autobiography published in 1789. • What other major world event happens in 1789?

15. The Autobiography • Just as we required you to write an autobiographical narrative freshmen year, you are now going to read a Olaudah Equiano’s narrative • This narrative gives a first hand account of the daily lives of slaves • The abolitionist) used these slave narratives in the 19 century to end slavery

16. Definitions of Implicit and Explicit • Implicit is the internal feelings, emotions, and struggles of the character. We often must make inferences by using context clues • Explicit is the external obstacles that occur in narration. These external forces are fully revealed in narration

17. Making Inferences • A good strategy to use while reading is to make an inference about the text. a. it is an educated guess b. requires that you look beyond the surface c. requires you to be alert of passages or phrases that give insight into the author’s beliefs about a subject

18. In Groups • Students will be expected to work in groups while listening and reading “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.” • Students will need to reread the text so to develop questions about Equiano’s experience • There are three major themes to keep in mind while addressing these questions

19. Questions Based on Equiano’s Argument • Whites are more abominable than those they claim are “animals” • Africans show more “humanity” than those that feel they are superior • “Christian” people acting contrary to Christian teachings

20. Groups (con’t) Groups of four (chosen by the teacher) 1. listen to audio 2. reread paragraph with group 3. after reading use Cornell notes to ask higher level questions about the paragraph in question—make sure to write the page number.

21. Groups (con’t) 4. after each member asks a question, each will read his/her response to the group. 5. Each group member will share his/her thoughts on the posed question 6. Students will then be expected to take Cornell notes on the questions they believe relate to Equiano’s argument

22. Shareouts • Be ready to share the information you discussed within a classroom discussion • In your discussions make sure to look for key vocabulary words that will assist in a deeper more implicit understanding of the text • Make sure that you are writing key ideas about the discussion

23. KWL • After we have read and discussed the narrative of Olaudah Equiano, you will return to the same partner and discuss what you learned about slavery and the slave trade during the eighteenth century

24. question Summary Equiano describes how he has to watch out for kidnappers, while parents are out working in the fields. Equiano and his sister hide in the trees so that the kidnappers couldn’t reach them. They signaled the road in order to ambush them. Predict what might happen to Equiano and his sister. One prediction might be that they are kidnapped Also, they can send one kidnapper out as a trap to get the kids down from the trees and then the rest would show up.

25. Question Summary Equiano and sister are kidnapped by two men and one women. Rushed to the woods with their hands tied and mouths covered. They went to a small house where they not allowed to eat I predict that they might be sold off as slaves • He noticed a familiar road and cries out but no one pays attention. • Predict what would happen after Equiano and his sister were carried off into a distance

26. Question Summary They finally offered food and then separated. He becomes depressed and doesn’t want to eat. He finally gets put with his first master and treated him well. The first wife of his master he looked at as a mother. • Explain why Equiano’s first master was good to him • Predict Equiano’s other masters might treat him.

28. Page 56 Question Notes Some black people are paid to kidnap Equiano and take him to a slave ship. He sees that other prisoners are chained together and becomes frightened. One of the crew members offers him liquor and he is too scared to take it and refuses it. A black person then offers the liquor and he drinks it. • Explain why the crew members beat him for not eating • Infer why Equiano is so scared to drink the liquor

29. Page 56 and 57 Question Notes Equiano passes out on the ship, wakes up later and sees a group of black people in front of him. One man offered him liquor. At first he refused it, and later another man forced him to drink it. • Predict why they wanted him to drink the liquor.

30. Pg 57 The white man put him on a windlass when he refused to eat. He and the other blacks talk about where they white men came from and were convinced they were magic. Equiano was flogged for the first time. Equiano found people from his native country. • Predict where they are going. • Predict on what they will do when they get to the new land.

31. Page 58-59 • Many people got sick and died and they didn’t let too many people on the deck. • For the first time he saw flying fish • Equiano wanted to die • Landed on Barbados • Treated as objects • Thought the people were magical because how they could control the boats

32. Page 59 • Christians act contrary to their beliefs • “Do to others as you want done to you” • Christians use them for their lust “the luxury of lust” • Separate family members • Equiano believes that it is a new type of horror