Warm-Up  This semester we are exploring two foundational questions explored in early American writing. What is an American? And How should American act?  Based on the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” how would Jonathan Edwards answer these questions?  Use evidence and examples found in the sermon.

During Today’s Lesson  To fulfill CA Focus Standard 2.4 Make reasonable assertions about the author’s arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.  You will learn about the effect of slavery on American society and its attempt to answer the questions “What is an American? How should an American act?”  Evidence of your learning will be shown through a dialectical journal and summary which identify the purpose and tone of Olaudah Equiano’s autobiographical narrative.

EARLY AMERICAN WRITING  Sermons: Deliver a religious message. Uses Bible as support for message.  Autobiographies: Deliver a political and cultural message. Uses life event as support for message.  Political Documents: Deliver a political message. Uses events and philosophy as support for message.

Slave Narratives: Purpose  Document slave life primarily in the American South from the invaluable perspective of first-hand experience.  Reveal the struggles of people of color in the North, as fugitives from the South recorded the disparities between America's ideal of freedom and the reality of racism in the so-called "free states.”  The most influential slave narratives were written to educate white readers about both the realities of slavery as an institution and persuade them to join the Abolitionist movement and see black people as individuals deserving of full human rights.

Before you watch preview video, set up circle map. Olaudah Equiano As you watch video, fill in circle map with important information about Equiano’s background.

After you watch preview video, use circle map info to write background paragraph. Olaudah Equiano As you watch video, fill in circle map with important information about Equiano’s background. Use the following paragraph frame: _______can be described as ______. He was born ________ and spent most of his life________. While ________, he became interested in ________. Additionally, ________________. His writing attempts to ______________ by _______________.

Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work  Objective (Informational) v. Subjective (Emotional) Tone is dependent on diction (word choice) and style.

TONE TOOL: Use this to help you identify specific tone of a text. Step 1: Is it neutral, positive, or negative? Step 2: Go through the list and find appropriate and specific word. Let’s practice…

Predict: What is the tone?  “Generally when the grown people in the neighborhood were gone far in the fields to labor, the children assembled together in some of the neighbors premises to play, and commonly some of us used to get up a tree to look for an assailant or kidnapper that might come upon us.”  … “It was in vain that we besought them not to part us; she was torn from me and immediately carried away, while I was left in a state of distraction not to be described.”  … “The small relief which her presence gave me from pin was gone, and the wretchedness of my situation was redoubled by my anxiety after her fate and my apprehensions lest her sufferings should be greater than min, when I could not be with her to alleviate them.”  “Here I first saw and tasted coconuts, which I thought superior to any nuts I had ever tasted before; and the trees which were loaded were also interspersed amongst the houses, which had commodious shades adjoining and were in the same manner as ours, the insides being neatly plastered and whitewashed.”  “One of the blacks therefore took it from him and gave it to me, and I took a little down my palate, which instead of reviving me, as they thought it would threw me into the greatest consternation at the strange feeling it produce, having never tasted such any liquor before.”

Predict: What is the tone?  “This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers”

TICKET OUT THE DOOR Choose one of the prompts to provide evidence of today’s learning: Today’s lecture on ___________________ reminded/made me think that___________. Today, I learned that _________________. Although I understand ______, I don’t get ____. Something I am still confused about and don’t understand__________.

9.27 Warm Up Yesterday we discussed the rhetorical (persuasive) function of slave narratives. Use your notes to write a paragraph that defines slave narratives and explains the rhetorical function of these narratives by completing the following frame. Slave narratives could be described as _____ _____________. These told the story of ________ in order to ________________________________.

As you read…  Compare the treatment Equiano receives during his enslavement in Africa with the treatment he receives on the slave ship.

After you read…  EXPLAIN the purpose of the narrative and identify how Equiano uses sensory details to achieve his intended effect…  Completing the Dialectical Journal.  Writing a summary of the text.