REMINDER: Douglass Essay due Friday, 2/26

For homework: read and answer the questions below. Define any words you do not know.

REMINDER: Douglass Essay due Wednesday, 2/24

This worksheet (below) should be placed in your HW folder by the end of the day.

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