Emma Watson Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk

Freddy D. vs. TED Talk essay

Honors:

Using your notes from the video on Modern Day Slavery and your handouts from Frederick Douglass, write a formal, academic essay comparing the two. Explain and analyze how each uses language, literary devices, and rhetorical appeal to address the serious subject of slavery.

Standard:

Which did you like more, Frederick Douglass’s narrative or the TED talk on modern day slavery? Explain your choice and why in an academic essay that also incorporates text or verbal evidence. 

Modern Day Slavery TED Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TPFLHvn024

Freddy D. Short Answer Questions...

Short answers are about one paragraph and include the answer, text evidence, and explanation.

1) How does Douglass appeal to the emotions of his readers in this excerpt?

2) What extended metaphor is made by Douglass, and what is its impact or significance?

3) How does Douglass differentiate Mr. Severe and Mr. Hopkins, and  how does this shed even more light on the reality of slave life?

Freddy D. Narrative and Analysis Due Friday the 7th of November

Excerpts from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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I have had two masters. My first master's name was Anthony. I do not remember his first name. He was generally called Captain Anthony—a title which, I presume, he acquired by sailing a craft on the Chesapeake Bay. He was not considered a rich slaveholder. He owned two or three farms, and about thirty slaves. His farms and slaves were under the care of an overseer. The overseer's name was Plummer. Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster. He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel. I have known him to cut and slash the women's heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at his cruelty, and would threaten to whip him if he did not mind himself. Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder. It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him. He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin. I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition. I was quite a child, but I well remember it. I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing. It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.

***10 examples needed below: 

Text Evidence	Literary Device/ Rhetorical Appeal	Analysis/ Significance