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Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Assignment Instructions:

1. You will work with a large group (half the class) on the tasks of this assignment for The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, but you are also responsible for completing your OWN individual work on YOUR assignment sheet for this text on the assignments page of Teams.

2. In your group:
a. Read and discuss this text together.
b. Collaborate on annotations, 3 sets of level questions (9 questions in total), SOAPSTone, and a critical summary on a shared document.
c. REMEMBER that on your OWN assignment sheet, you will need to complete annotations, 1 set of level questions, SOAPSTone, and a critical summary for a grade.

3. On Wednesday of this week, your group will present your text to the other half of the class, along with the analysis work you've completed.

4. Your group will present your 3 sets of level questions (9 questions in total) to the other half of the class, and the individuals in that group will be responsible for answering those questions after they have listened and taken notes.

5. Likewise, you will be responsible for listening, taking notes, and answering the level questions about the other text ("Letter to John Adams") presented by the other group.

Objectives:
• Student Will Be Able To (SWBT) collaborate to identify and analyze main ideas, key details, and rhetorical/style techniques through annotation, level questions, and SOAPSTone analysis In Order To (IOT) collaboratively and individually compose a critical summary of a text.

• Student Will Be Able To (SWBT) listen, take notes, and understand the main ideas, key details, and rhetorical/style techniques presented in a cooperative activity (similar to Jigsaw) In Order To (IOT) collaboratively and individually draw conclusions and compose comprehensive and analytical responses to level questions.

Using at least two of the sources/texts from this quarter and at least one additional research source, write an argumentative essay about how and why the definition of freedom has changed/evolved since the birth of the USA. Support your argument by analyzing how U.S. leaders have used rhetoric and different political perspectives to hone (refine/redefine) the concept of freedom to citizens of their time.

( The 2 passages are Obama''s "More perfect union speech and Excerpt from ''Narrative of Olaudah Equiano'' (While Equiano is not a U.S. leader, you can use this text to support your analysis/argument with a text that does include a U.S. leader)

Level Questions
Level 1: What does the word fetters mean from page 4?
• Fetters means chains. - J.K
Level 2: what are the pros and cons about this entire situation?
The cons are that slaves were being sold - ET
The pros for Equiano are that he was not put in chains and he was able to stay on deck. The cons are the chains that were put on the others, which were becoming unsupportable, children were falling and suffocating, and there were shrieks of women and the dying that made it a horror scene. - J.K
Level 3: What would have happened if multiple people had gotten out of their chains?
Then the whole thing would be way different- M.S
Level 1: Why were people jumping from the ships? ay
• People were jumping off the ships because of the close proximities and harsh environment they were in, they didn't have space and were all smushed together which resulted in high temperatures and suffocation. -A.Gayem
People were jumping the ship because they rather jump of and die to go somewere
Level 2: what message is Equiano trying to show us? He is trying to excite us that august assemblies a sense of compassion which the slave trade has empacted on unfortunate countrymen - Kylenb
Level 3: what would happen if slavery never happened in this world?
The world will probably be a better world where people did not have to judge anyone's skin color. - Raini Johnson
Level 1: How many slaves could fit in one ship?
They could hold up to 600 ships(J.Caples)
• Slave ships could only hold up to 600 slaves, but they still held the max. -L.Johnson
Level 2: With the information that Equiano has given us who are the people that have been captured are they slaves, immigrants and ex.? With the information given the people that were captured were salves and not immigrants. (Andre McLaren) (KW):Basically, they were slaves. He captured them and they tried to escape by jumping overboard or straving to their death.
Level 3: What if there was a way to escape their fate do you think that they could had found it in time before making it to the harbor? They would have most likely found an escape due to the fact that two other people found a way to escape.

Attachment:- Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Assignment.rar