Read the Following:
- --Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by: Harriet Jacobs (chapters 1 and 7 click the link above for an e-text)...comparisons to Lincoln's Address and the slave narrative.
- Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass by: Frederick Douglass (the two prefaces and chapter 1). Click the title of the work for a link to the e-text.
Then complete the following activities:
- Listen to and read the lyrics of SEVERAL slave (negro) spirituals (think "Wade in the Water" or "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" or "Let My People Go"). Using your knowledge of the negro spiritual, as well as 'call and response' lyric patterns and techniques of improvisation, compose a new verse or new lyrics to one song (Bring the spiritual and your new lyrics to class for discussion). How does your improvisation change the meaning and effect of the song?
- In a 3-4 paragraph essay, compare one rhetorical device that is used in each piece. Consider the following questions to help guide your ideas (though you can choose to write about other topics): Why have Caucasian authors vouched for, or validated the African American Slave Narrative (and therefore, the African American Writer)? What effect does this have on establishing ethos? Who, then, is the author's Primary Audience? Why are they writing to them? Does gender affect ethos or pathos?
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i checked the blog and there is nothing here stating we have homework due on thursday so i guess that's no make up work for me then huh?
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