Chapter 4 Study Guide, Due March 29

CHAPTER IV - 15 pts

QUESTIONS

1. Why is Mr. Austin Gore a “first-rate overseer”? What is the irony of this description of him? What is ironic about his name?
2. What reason does Mr. Gore give for killing Demby the slave?
3. What other examples does Frederick give of his statement “that killing a slave, or any colored person,... is not treated as
4. a crime, either by the courts or the community” (p. 41)?

QUOTES

• Maxim laid down by slaveholders: “It is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault” (p. 38).
• “To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished” (pp. 38-39).
• “He dealt sparingly with his words, and bountifully with his whip, never using the former where the latter would answer as well” (p. 39).

Sentence Outline Examples

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/544/03/

http://www.shoreline.edu/doldham/102/HTML/Topic%20to%20Sentence.html

http://www.oakton.edu/studentservices/learning_center/tutoring/research_paper_tips/sentence_outline.php

Formal Sentence Outline

Overview
The Formal Sentence Outline is one of the assignments which make up the major research project. Using the specified standard outline format indicated below, you will show the major divisions and subdivisions of your research paper, making every entry a grammatically complete declarative sentence.
In the course of the research project, you will write three drafts of the Formal Sentence Outline. The first will be written before you write the first draft of your research paper. It will predict the structure of your essay before you write it, showing the paper's probable major divisions and subdivisions. Next, when you write the first draft of your research paper, you will revise your outline so that it reflects the actual contents of your finished paper. Finally, when you write the final draft of your research paper, you will revise the outline a second time to reflect the changes and additions you have made in your final draft of your research paper.
The Assignment
Following all of the formatting guidelines and rules below, write a formal sentence outline which indicates the structure and development of your research paper, showing its divisions and subdivisions. Make every entry of the outline a grammatically complete sentence.
Note: First, write an outline whose entries are single words, short phrases, sentence fragments, or questions. Then, turn this into your sentence outline.  Every entry must be a complete declarative sentence of the sort which might actually appear in your research paper.
Remember that revised and updated revisions of this outline should be included with each of the assigned drafts of your research paper.
Outline Format
Place the essay's thesis statement at the top of the outline. Most outlines contain three or four levels of detail (although more levels may be used if the writer wishes). The format for this assignment uses Roman numerals for the main, or largest, divisions of the outline (level one). Capital letters indicate the sub-levels of the main divisions (level two). Arabic numerals indicate the sub-levels of the capital-letter sections (level three). Lower-case letters indicate the sub-levels of Arabic-numeral sections (level four).
Outline Rules
1. The Rule of Pairs: If you have a I, you must have a II; if you have an A, then you must have a B; if you have a 1, then you must have a 2, and so on.
2. Different sections of the outline may have different levels of detail. Give each section the amount of detail it requires.
3. Indent each successive level of the outline three spaces, and maintain even internal margins throughout the outline.
4. Double-space between all headings in the outline (or doublespace the whole outline and triple-space between headings).
Example of Typical Outline Structure:
Formal Sentence Outline
Thesis StatementI.
   A.
      1.
      2.
   B.
II.
   A.
   B.
   C.
III.
   A.
   B.
IV.
   A.
   B.
      1.
      2.
      3.
   C.
      1.
         a.
         b.
      2.
and so on . . .

Example Outline (partial):
I. The polygraph measures physiological changes In response to questions.
II. Private business uses polygraph testing for at least two reasons.
   A. Employees are tested to thwart thievery.
   B. Potential employees are tested to discover
   characteristics that would make them undesirable.
III. Well-supported arguments can be made against the use of polygraph tests.
   A. They intrude into an individual's private life.
   B. They are demeaning to a person being tested.
   C. The results are often read inaccurately.
and so on . . .

FD Chapter 3 Study Guide, Due March 21

CHAPTER 3 - 15 pts

Relates several anecdotes that tell readers more about plantation life and the thinking of slaves.

QUESTIONS - Answer in complete sentences. (2 pts each)

1. How did Colonel Lloyd keep the slave boys from taking his fruit?
2. Why was it particularly difficult to be the slaves in charge of Colonel Lloyd’s horses?
3. What is ironic about Colonel Lloyd’s treatment of his horses compared to the treatment of his slaves? (What happened to the slave who told Colonel Lloyd the truth about his master?) (4 pts)
4. What is a maxim?

Quotes - Explain the speaker/situation and significance of each.  (2 pts each)
Slave maxim: “a still tongue makes a wise head” (p. 36).

FD Chapter 2 Study Guide, Due March 17

CHAPTER 2 - 20 pts

Describes the plantation system of Colonel Lloyd; discusses the daily existence of slaves on the plantation.

1. Who were the family members of Frederick’s master Colonel Edward Lloyd?
2. What is the relationship of Colonel Lloyd to Frederick’s master?
3. Was there a pecking order among slaves? Explain.
4. Why would a slave whose life on a plantation was very bad fear being sold to a slave-trader?
5. Why was Severe an appropriate name for the overseer? (English)
6. Why is it difficult to find copies of slave songs?
7. Why does Frederick suggest that slaves sing out of sorrow rather than out of joy?

QUOTES - Explain the speaker/situation and significance of each quote.  (2 pts each)

“The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties” (p. 30).

“Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery” (p. 32).

QUESTIONS - Answer all questions in complete sentences (2 pts each)

FD Chapter 1 Study Guide, due March 17

CHAPTER 1 - 30 pts
Sets the scene; Frederick tells us some of his early life and begins to explain life on the plantation.

QUESTIONS - Answer in complete sentences.  (2 pts each)

1. Why is Frederick not sure when he was born?
2. What is Frederick’s last name at birth?
3. Why would slaveholders want to keep a slave ignorant of such a simple thing as the date of his birth? (Education)
4. Who were Frederick’s mother and father?
5. Why does Frederick make the point that a slaveholder who has fathered a child is likely to be tougher on that child?
6. Why does Frederick only rarely see his mother?
7. Is Frederick’s relationship with his mother typical of other slave children?
8. What is the role of the overseer on the plantation?
9. What is the relationship of the slaveholder to the overseer to the slave on the plantation? (History)
10. What do we learn about Plummer, the overseer?
11. Who is Frederick’s first master?
12. Why does Frederick tell the story of Lloyd’s Ned?

QUOTATIONS - Explain the speaker/situation and significance of each quote. (2 pts each)
 
“By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters to keep their slaves thus ignorant” (p. 21).
 
“He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding” (p. 24).
 
“It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass” (p. 25).

Storyboards for "A Doll's House"

Select a scene that you feel represents or explains a major theme in the play. 

Create a 3-panel storyboard to represent this scene (sketch first on loose leaf, then on good paper).  It can be black and white, but label any objects, colors, etc. that are important in demonstrating the theme.

What to include in your storyboard:

·         Characters

·         Set

·         Action

·         Act/pg #

·         Summary below each panel, related to theme

What to think about:

• What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
• What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
• How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
• Where the "camera" is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?
• Body language/position
• Colors
• Lighting
• Symbolic objects

What you don’t finish in class, finish for homework.

20 pts

           

            Thematic connection – 5 pts

            Symbolic representations – 5 pts

            Storyboard elements – 5 pts

            Neatness – 5 pts