Today's project: Creative writing...
Based on what you have read of the Slave Narrative, use two or three of your favorite images or passages from the text and pay tribute to Frederick Douglass. The format is up to you - poem, collage, essay.
Open to http://mrswillisenglish3.pbworks.com
Log in and create a page.
Title the page with your initials and Douglass. ( MWDouglass ).
Put the page in your folder!
Remember to save your work! - especially before adding pictures.
Sample tribute:
“Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden: |
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues' rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues' rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
Homework: This project must be completed by Tuesday, Feb. 8th. ( 100 points.)
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