7th ELA - 2/12/21

7th Grade ELA

Friday, February 12, 2021

Multiple Choice

What is the name of this TV character?

• Urkle

• Jamal

• Carlton

• Will

Learning Goals

• I can determine the meaning of words and phrases in Excerpt 5 of "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."

• I can use root words, prefixes, and suffixes as clues to the meaning of words in Excerpt 5.

• I can identify different types of figurative language in Excerpt 5.

• I can reread a complex text in order to make meaning of it.

Excerpt 5

Please follow along silently as Mr. McIntyre reads Excerpt 5 of "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" aloud.

(Write down ANY words you do not know.)

Open Ended

What does Douglass decide he will do in 1834?

Open Ended

Feasible is from the root word fais, which means do or make.

The suffix in this word is -able.

What do you think feasible means?

Open Ended

What are two (2) of Douglass’s MAIN concerns about trying to escape from slavery?

Multiple Choice

Patrick Henry, a delegate from Virginia who was trying to get his state to join the Revolutionary War, wrote a speech where he said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

What type of figurative language does Douglass use when he mentions Patrick Henry and his own “doubtful liberty at most, and almost certain death”?

• simile

• juxtaposition

• allusion

• metaphor

Open Ended

What was the escape plan?

Open Ended

What is a protection?

How would it help Douglass and the other escaping slaves?

Open Ended

What does Douglass mean when he says, “We are betrayed?”

What has happened to their plan to escape?

Open Ended

What does Henry refuse to do? Why?

Open Ended

What does Douglass mean by “own nothing” and why do Douglass, Henry, and John repeat those words?

Open Ended

Where do the constables take Douglass?