Bibliography
Teacher Resources
Bacon, Jacqueline. The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
This is a very comprehensive guide to the role of rhetoric in the Abolition Movement. There was so much information in this book I had a difficult time picking and choosing just which facts to include in my unit without overwhelming my students. I will definitely use this book in the future and recommend it to any U.S. History teacher.
Documenting the American South. "Frederick Douglass: 1818-1895. The University Library: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/bio.html (accessed July 8, 2008).
This website provides information about Douglass's influence on the Abolition Movement in basic terms. It is an easy read and could possibly be supplemented as a student reading assignment.
Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.
Of all the research I did for this unit, this book was the most difficult and most rewarding to read. Not only did it help me write my unit, it also taught me how to approach teaching the very abstract concept of voice in a concrete way. Many of the activities listed throughout the unit are based on the essays in this book.
Frost, Robert. Collected Poems, Prose and Plays. NY: Library of America, 1995.
This passage proved to be very enlightening in the development of my unit. I highly recommend Frost's passage "The Imagining Ear" in this collection of writing to any English teacher. It will provide you and your students with a deeper understanding of how to think about voice.
Gibson, Donald B. "Reconciling Public and Private in Frederick Douglass's Narrative," American Literature, Vol. 57, No. 4: December, 1985. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2926352?seq=21 (accessed July 12, 2008)
This source was not one of the most useful websites I found; however, it provided some useful historical information necessary in teaching one type of rhetorical strategy used by Douglass.
Instructional Strategies Online. "What is Raft," Saskatoon Public Schools, 2004-2008. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/raft/ (accessed July 12, 2008).
This website was extremely useful to me. It explained the RAFT writing process thoroughly and it also provided many worksheets that can be used in class. It can be used in any classroom because the writing options are so varied.
Student Resources
American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton. NY: Library of America, 2006. (Martin Luther King Jr.'s Address to the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.)
This book contains King's "I Have a Dream Speech." Although this speech is widely available on the internet, this book also contains several speeches from orators in the Abolition Movement such as Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln. They are great examples of different types of voice and showcase a realm of rhetorical strategies within the many speeches.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 1997.
This is the main focus of the unit. Each student will have a class set copy of the book to read during class. I recommend reading the book during class because of the difficult vocabulary.
Foner, Phillip. "Frederick Douglass, September 3, 1848, Letter to Thomas Auld," Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999. www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1121.htm (accessed July 6, 2008).
This website has a comprehensive collection of Douglass's speeches and letters. It includes the following documents used in my unit: the letter to Thomas Auld that was published in the Liberator; a letter to Thurlow Weed (who secured Douglass's passage aboard a ship to Britain); a letter toWilliam White (an abolitionist); a speech delivered in Rochester, NY in 1852 regarding the hypocrisy of celebrating July 4 th; a speech delivered in April 1846 in Britain regarding their involvement in the Abolition Movement; a speech delivered in October 1845 regarding his mission to Great Britain that will be compared to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." There are many other primary documents accessible through this useful website.
Hughes, Langston. "Negro Speaks of Rivers."
This poem can be found by searching the title or author on the internet. I will give each student a copy of this poem. It is used in one of my activities listed at the end of the unit.
Materials
Class set of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
Highlighters
Markers, colored pencils, crayons
DVD player
CD player
LCD projector (for audio recordings on the internet)
Sentence strips
Poster board/paper
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