Warm Up:

1. What do you see?

2. What is the message?

3. Who might have used

this to prove their point?

Today’s Question:

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Today’s Activities:

1. Read and discuss Frederick Douglass’ life

2. Read a poem from Frederick Douglass’ funeral service

3. Write poems

Frederick Douglass: 1818-1895

“I was just a boy. Hushed, terrified, stunned. That is

slavery.”

--Frederick Douglass

“I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I

was a man now.”

--Frederick Douglass

Early Life

Frederick Douglass was born a _______ in Maryland

 As a young boy, he was sent to ________ to take

care of children.  There, he learned to ______ and ______.

Gaining Freedom

When he was 20 years old, Douglass boarded a______ for New York.

  He would never call another man

______again.

Video clip: What did Frederick Douglass do after he escaped?

Abolitionists believed in the immediate freeing of slaves. They saw slavery as

cruel, inhumane, and morally wrong.

Life as a Free Man

Frederick Douglass became an ________, who worked to end _______. In 1845, he published the story of his life: Narrative in the life of Frederick __________. When his book was published, Douglass quickly escaped to England before _________ _________ could get him. He returned from England a free man and published the North __________, a newspaper that spread the abolitionist message.

The North Star: Douglass’ Abolitionist Newspaper

In Pairs:

Read a poem that was read at Frederick Douglass’ funeral.

What does it say? What can it tell us about Frederick Douglass?

Vocab word: Serfdom: a person of low status; a slave or servant

Poem from Douglass’ funeral

Douglass.  

I saw a slave of MarylandUpon the soil of freedom stand.

The waves that once the Mayflower boreWere dashing on New England’s shore.

The Stars and Stripes showed Northern willOn breezes from old Bunker Hill;

And as he drank in libertyI saw the man from serfdom free.

Vocab word: Serfdom: a person of low status; a slave or servant

Write your own poem:Who was Frederick Douglass?

What did he do?Make sure your poem is 10 lines (or more!) and rhymes!

What important facts should we include?

What rhyming words could we use?

ANSWER

1234 Newspaper

anti-slavery

Abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

North Star

ANSWER

1234 Anti-slavery

African American and white

North Star, Liberator

Called for immediate end to slavery

Abolitionists

ANSWER

1234 Born a slave

Often wore a scarf

Escaped to Pennsylvania

Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

ANSWER

1234 City

New England

Massacre

Tea Party

Boston

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