Kevin Bales: How to Combat Modern Slavery (DUE 10/31)

What are your thoughts on modern slavery?

DIRECTIONS: Watch the video and respond to it with your thoughts and reactions. Address the following questions with well-developed paragraphs for each:

• What is the current definition of slavery? (1-para.)
• How does slavery happen in today's world? (1-para.)
• Where in the world is slavery practiced in this day and age? (1-para.)
• What kinds of people tend to fall victim to the horrors of slavery? (1-para.)
• What is the remarkable difference between American slavery of yesteryear and slavery in the modern world? (1-para.)
• What is a "freedom dividend"? (1-para.)
• What is our "botched emancipation"? (1-para.)
• What are your thoughts about modern slavery? What does liberation look like? (1-para.)
• According to the video, what does it take to end modern slavery?

Please write all responses in the comment box provided.

"My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass (DUE 10/25)

CHAPTER XI. "A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream"

DIRECTIONS: Read the provided chapter from Frederick Douglass's book and write a 500-word summary of the text. Please copy and paste the text into a Gdoc (which will be stored in your digital portfolio) and highlight areas of the text that generate thought or insight.

Historical Points of Reference for Your Argument (DUE 10/21)

DIRECTIONS: Select a historical topic from the 19th Century on the website Eyewitness to History. Write a 500-word essay on which you answer the following questions:

• SUMMARY: What historical event topic from this time period did you select? (1 paragraph)
• CAUSE: What factors contributed to this event taking place? Why did this happen? (1 paragraph)
• EFFECT: How did the historical event you selected impact the practice of slavery in America? (1 paragraph)
• ARGUMENT: What information from the topic selected can be used to support your thesis? (1 paragraph)

Post your essay in the comment box.

What's Your Thesis? (DUE 10/5)

DIRECTIONS: Each member of your group must represent a different side of the slavery debate. If there are more than 3 of you to a group, then you will have more than one person representing a particular side. Identify your argument from the perspective from which you are writing your persuasive essay. Evaluate the situation from the point of view of a slave, slave owner, or abolitionist, and determine your 3 most important points and how you will present them in your thesis statement. Stay in character and make a case!

CLICK ON THE LINK THAT IS PROVIDED AND WRITE YOUR THESIS STATEMENT:

Who are you? What is your position on slavery? Convince me in a sentence!

Who was impacted by slavery? (DUE 10/3)

DIRECTIONS: In 3 separate paragraphs, explain how the following groups of people were impacted by slavery in the United States.

SLAVES (1st Paragraph)


SLAVE OWNERS (2nd Paragraph)


ABOLITIONISTS (3rd Paragraph)