Frederick Douglass
A person who is against slavery and fights to end it is called
An abolitionist
What is the mood of this poem?
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Won the Civil War
The north
Newly freed African Americans had to work as this
A sharecropper
An author's attitude toward a subject
Tone
How did Frederick Douglass become a free man?
He wrote fake papers and disguised himself as a sailor.
Summarize the poem
Answers will vary....African Americans doing everything they can to learn how to read despite their circumstances.
Seceded from the Union because they wanted to continue slavery
The south
The name of the organization that helped African Americans get jobs, clothes, and food
Freedmen's Bureau
Mood
The feeling the reader gets based on author's writing.
According to Frederick Douglass, what is the goal of education?
To liberate (free) yourself
How does the speak feel about learning to read by the end of the poem?
Self-sufficient/Independent
President Lincoln signed this document that "freed" slaves in the south
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment abolished slavery
The 13th Amendment
This influences the tone and mood
The author's word choice
According to Frederick Douglass, how can people overcome adversity?
Through literacy (reading and writing)
Theme of the poem
Education
Why did the Civil War happen?
Because the south wanted to continue slavery and the north and President Lincoln did not.
These three things were the centers of African American life.
Family, the church, and education.
What is similar about Frederick Douglass's autiobiography and the poem Learning to Read?
They both talk about liberating yourself through learning to read.
The name of Frederick Douglass's autobiography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Explain why learning to read was so important to some slaves.
Ex. Slaves could become smarter and eventually want to free themselves.
Estimated number of newly freed black people in the south
4 million
What newly freed African Americans were promised from the government, but did not get.
Land or 40 Acres and a mule
What tone is created with the following sentences.
And said there is no use trying, Oh! Chloe, you’re too late; But as I was rising sixty, I had no time to wait.
So I got a pair of glasses, And straight to work I went, And never stopped till I could read The hymns and Testament.3
A tone of accomplishment, perseverance, resilience, success, etc.