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PROJECT 7: HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? By Tammy Wicks   ACTIVITY TWO: Based on previous day's lesson, review circle map and the characters from the story: Johnson, Dolores (1997). Now let me fly: The story of a Slave family. New York: Aladdin books. Talk to students about real life accounts of what happened during slave times. Tell the students that you will be reading what one slave wrote about his life as a slave and that you would like for them to respond in their response journal. One or two sentences about what they think based upon what you read. Read six quotes from How would you feel?, allowing for students to write responses between each one. Discuss what the students thought about the quotes and which one did they like the best? Do the quotes make life sound fair or unfair? Why? Ask for several students to read responses for each question if they wish.   QUOTES FOR ACTIVITY TWO: "I do not know exactly when I was born, for slaves keep no family records." "It was customary in those days for those having slaves, to take them to some prominent place, such as a point where two roads crossed, on the first day of the New Year, and at a given hour of the day the slaves would be put up at auction, and sent to the highest bidders for one year; there was generally quite a gathering on these occasions, both of slaves and of white people." "The farm work was done by slaves, women working in the field as well as the men. Boys and girls were required to work as soon as they were able to do anything." "The woman in charge would most likely be called Aunt, as she not only did the cooking but also looked out for the laundry work, and had the general charge of such of the slave children as did not live with their mothers, in separate cabins." "Until I was quite a large boy say 10 or 12 years old my only garment was a long shirt, made of heavy cotton cloth and reaching from my neck to just below my knees, no hat upon my head or shoes upon my feet. After I was thought to be old enough to take part in the field work, I had a regular allowance of clothing in common with the other slaves. This allowance consisted of two shirts, two pairs of pants, two pair of shoes, one straw hat and two blankets per year. . . . The outfit of the women, like that of the men, was very simple and inexpensive, consisting of two sheets, two blankets, two dresses, two pairs of shoes and now and then a cheap hat." "When the slaves wanted to comb their hair they did not always go to wash as a fashionable young lady of today does, but would get a card such as some farmers use in carding cattle, and would card their hair with it."   GO TO PROJECT 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 For additional information or comments about these Learning Activities, contact: Dr. Joy N. Stapleton, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary and Middle Grades Education, School of Education, East Carolina University.