Assignment 1: Keeping a running dialogue with the text
As you read Linda Brent’s experience as a slave, you will be required to record elements of the text that strike/interest you. This should include: specific events, Jacobs’s tone, laws, procedures, daily life, etc. Each journal entry should be treated with the seriousness of any other formal assignment. When you make references to the text please include page numbers. Page numbers are a requirement.
Length: about half a page (min. 175 words)
Format: Clear and legible for grading with two specific references to the text per entry. You may record your entries on your blog.
Number of entries: Four entries in total
Although these are journal entries, everyone will have the chance to share. Each of you will sign up for a day to present your entries, and this presentation will be a part of your overall journal grade. If you are absent the day of your presentation, you will be expected to present the following class.
*** If you’re having trouble figuring out where to start or what to write about, you may want to use the list below to guide your reading and recording in the beginning.***
Consider:
• Slavery’s effect on family life
• Physical/mental/emotional/sexual abuse
• The power of ownership…
• Asking characters questions
• The rules/laws that were in place at the time
