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Olaudah's Home
Kind of Activity:
Artistic Response
Objective:
Students will enhance their understanding of the narrative by visualizing the home from which Equiano was taken.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5
Structure:
Although for a contemporary audience it would likely be unnecessary for Equiano to justify why being kidnapped would have been distressing, he describes his childhood as a way of evoking empathy for his situation. He says that he was happy there, and quite reasonably was attached to his home, parents, and siblings. In enslavement practices in the West Indies and the...
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