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To be a Slave Julius Lester

To be a Slave Julius Lester. Jazmine Bridges 5 th. Context Clues. Text Purpose. To be a Slave is meant to inform us about what happened when slavery existed. The author wanted us to understand how horrible they treated and to get a mental picture of their everyday, routine lifestyle. .

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To be a Slave Julius Lester

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  1. To be a SlaveJulius Lester Jazmine Bridges 5th

  2. Context Clues

  3. Text Purpose To be a Slave is meant to inform us about what happened when slavery existed. The author wanted us to understand how horrible they treated and to get a mental picture of their everyday, routine lifestyle.

  4. Text Structure The author of To be a Slave, Julius Lester, used first and third person in the book so we could interpret the story from more than one perspective. Its better this way because you get more than one persons thoughts on the situation.

  5. Free Americans • Can act freely. • We are not owned. • We may have families as we please. • We can chose to work wherever we want to. • We cant be beaten by anyone. It’s a law. • We can worship whoever we want. • Slaves • Unable to be free. • Ruled by those who “owned” them. • Couldn’t have families. • Men and women had to work in the planation. • Couldn’t choose religion. Text Representation • Both • Judged by race and religion. • Have to work for what we need.

  6. Author’s Perspective/Point of View

  7. Main Idea

  8. Supporting Details

  9. Draw Inferences

  10. “How Slavery Really Ended in America”: 1.What caused the end of slavery. 2. Talks about 3 main slaves. 3. Abraham Lincoln was envolved. 4. Talks about the ending of slavery. 5. Focused on one time. Both: 1 .About slaves 2. Mentions emancipation proclamation 3. Can teach history 4. In virgina 5. Both have escape stories (runaway slaves) To be a Slave: 1. Different stories from slaves. 2. Tells about their whole journey/ life. 3. Talks to many slaves 4. Told in 1st and 3rd person 5. Talks about how they were treated. Compare-Contrast

  11. Facts

  12. Opinions

  13. Reading Response In the book the slaves looked forward to Christmas. I look forward to Christmas every year also because it’s one of the few days I get to spend time with my entire family. The slaves in the book sang when they were going though something and it would cheer them up. Although I cant sing, I still sing to cheer myself up when I'm not having the best day. The slaves were given the surname of their owners just like us. We are given the same last name as our parents instead of our owners.

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