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To be a Slave

To be a Slave. Name : Daniel Venglar Class Period:6. Context Clues. Text Purpose. The author, Julius Lester, wrote the book—To be a Slave, so he could inform the reader of the horrors of slavery. Text Structure.

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To be a Slave

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  1. To be a Slave Name: Daniel Venglar Class Period:6

  2. Context Clues

  3. Text Purpose • The author, Julius Lester, wrote the book—To be a Slave, so he could inform the reader of the horrors of slavery.

  4. Text Structure • Julius Lester switched from 1st person to 3rd person several times in the book so he could vividly state his point without coming off as ignorant.

  5. Text Representation • I did not know that for the several years which slavery successfully sustained itself in America that some slaves were ruthlessly stripped down to bare nudity when they were auctioned. I was also naïve to what bucks are and how the method of torment was viciously painful since you couldn’t try an shake of the pain of being whipped since you were constricted like how a boa suffocates its prey.

  6. Author’s Perspective/Point of View

  7. Main Idea

  8. Supporting Details

  9. Draw Inferences

  10. Compare-Contrast Title: To be a Slave 1. Speaks of the lashings. 2. Not in America at the beginning of the story. , their on the boats. 3.Speaks of the auction blocks. 4.Speaks of what happened after the Civil War 5.Real accounts of slaves. Title: How Slavery Really Ended in America 1. Tells the Tale of how slaves escaped plantations and helped to launch the Civil War 2.Slaves are at America in beginning 3. Civil War is about to begin 4. Doesn’t speak of the torment slaves had to endure 5.Speaks more about how slaves helped the cause. Both 1. nonfiction 2. Talks about slaves 3.Talks about slave masters 4.They talk about resistance towards slavery 5. Talks about the south.

  11. Facts

  12. Opinions

  13. Reading Response • I dislike the talk of bucks because of how cruel and uncomfortable. Now I’m not against the telling of what they are, I just think that the vast cruelty and evilness that must be involved to put someone in one of these is incredible.

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