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Name: FORMTEXT ?????Date: FORMTEXT ?????Facilitator: FORMTEXT ?????School: FORMTEXT ?????5.04 Twelve Years a SlavePart ADirections: Read the excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave. In complete sentences, answer the questions below. Use textual evidence to provide support where necessary.1. What is this excerpt about? FORMTEXT ?????2. What is the example that is explicitly described in this excerpt that illustrates how slavery undermined and corrupted the bond between a mother and her children? FORMTEXT ?????3. What does the text tell us about Eliza’s relationships when enslaved by Mr. Berry? What can you infer—reading between the lines—about how the institution of slavery affected those relationships when Eliza and her children were owned by Berry? FORMTEXT ?????4. What does this excerpt tell you about how slavery affected parents’ abilities to care for and protect their children? FORMTEXT ?????5. What does this excerpt imply about family life under slavery? FORMTEXT ?????Part BDirections: Read the three excerpts below. Then write what you believe the inferred message is from the text.Excerpt from Twelve Years a SlaveMessage inferred from the text1. She [Eliza] was the slave of a rich man … was born … on his plantation. Years before, he [Mr. Berry, Eliza’s master] had fallen into dissipated habits, and quarreled with his wife … Leaving his wife and daughter in the house they had always occupied, he erected a new one nearby, on the estate. Into this house he brought Eliza; and, on condition of her living with him, she and her children were to be emancipated. She resided with him there nine years...Emily was his child! FORMTEXT ?????2. It has been seen that the jealousy and hatred of Mistress Epps made the daily life of her young [Patsey] and agile slave completely miserable. … In Epps’absence the mistress often ordered me to whip her without the remotest provocation.” FORMTEXT ?????3. It has been seen that the jealousy and hatred of Mistress Epps made the daily life of her young [Patsey] and agile slave completely miserable. … In Epps’absence the mistress often ordered me to whip her without the remotest provocation.” FORMTEXT ????? ................
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