Frederick Douglass, the mighty abolitionist, was the single most photographed person in the United States during the nineteenth century. Here's how he might've looked in motion. Brace yourself and press play. pic.twitter.com/HOxDK7jGyh

— La Marr Jurelle Bruce (@Afromanticist) February 28, 2021

Hi all,

For today's class, please work on the following, reading carefully:

1. Write a full draft of your Douglass paper. It does NOT have to be perfect. You are just being graded on completion of the task, which you might be able to complete in class today. Put it in your HW folder for Friday.
2. Organize your HW folder. Here's an example of what it should look like
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All that you need to write the paper will be available by clicking here. The prompt (which is the first link in the linked post) asks you to address three aspects of Douglass' writing, but you can pick two of the three if you wish. We're not going to be able to do as much, given that we're in the midst of a Global Pandemic with a Novel Coronavirus (sorry, Maria P.). 

Remember that you should be accessing the top 3 levels of Bloom's taxonomy in your essay: analysis (of Douglass' words), evaluation (judging his credibility), and synthesis/creation (drawing from multiple sources).

Happy birthday Frederick Douglass. He should be read, not just celebrated and occasionally quoted.

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) February 14, 2021

By February 10th, you should finish the book, annotating as you go, posing questions and keeping in mind the prompt. Below are the past assignments. 

1. Read and annotate Douglass, chapters IV - IX (ch. 4 - 9)
2. Read over the "categories of credibility" (PDF below)
3. Fill out one example per category and place it in your HW folder

Consider these categories below in light of our future essay prompt (TBA): "Because Frederick Douglass was an atypical slave, and later became an abolitionist, he is not a credible source of information regarding the ‘peculiar institution’.” Agree or disagree, using specific evidence (quotes and page numbers). 

BTW, this is what your HW folder should look like for the new semester:

Here is one answer (from Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching):

And how does it relate to our final assessment and the inevitable 4th Quarter Project?

Oh, and speaking of the final assessment, here are 3 possible topics (in reverse chronological order):

1. The Attack on the Capitol
2. Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Battle over the Supreme Court 
3. George Floyd Protests