Chap 2 - 1ère - The secret road to freedom

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Séance 2

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The secret road to freedom

Séance 3

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Séance 4

Séance 9

Séance 5

Chap 2: The secret road to freedom Axe: Diversity and inclusion Problématique:

Final Task

You have been a "station master" for several years now and have helped many slaves to escape. You are invited to a conference to share your story.

• Speak in the 1st person
• Add feelings to your narrative to make it more believable
• You will have 5-10mn to write down notes before your speech.
• Look at the audience, do not read your notes.

treatment

guilty

people

Runaway slaves

escaping

places

What is the underground railroad?

What were the slaves' conditions?

Find the main elements of the railroad.

a secretive network of people and places...

the promise of freedom lay in the North...

an escaped route had been established...

it helped enslaved people...

Les articles

On l'utilise pour:

• les sentiments
• les concepts
• les noms propres
• les noms pluriels lorsqu'ils sont employés de manière générale
• les lieux géographies
• les sports (sauf exception)
• les institutions
• etc

On l'utilise pour extraire UN élément et le mettre en avant pour la première fois. a -> devant une consonne an -> devant une voyelle

Avec the, on pointe précisément vers un exemplaire précis, qui a déjà été évoqué. On l'utilise aussi pour les titres: the Queen, the President, etc. On le traduit par le, la ou les.

Recap from the last lesson. person 1: explain to me what the underground railroad is. person 2: what were the slaves' conditions?

Recap from the last lesson. Give the definition of the following codes: station masters, cargo, stations.

Write down as much information as you can about Harriet's life.

Now, let's put all the events in chronological order on the timeline above.

Why do you think Harriet Tubman was nicknamed "Black Moses"?

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, in the early 1820s. Born into chattel slavery, Araminta, or Minty, was the fifth of nine children. Two of Minty’s older sisters were sold to a chain gang. Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment. Young Minty’s life changed forever on an errand to a neighborhood store. There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead. Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells, which we know of today as narcolepsy, for the rest of her life. Minty’s owner tried to sell her, but there were no buyers for an enslaved person who fell into sleeping spells. She was instead put to work with her father, Ben Ross, who taught her how to lumber. Lumbering increased Minty’s physical strength and put her in touch with free black sailors who shipped the wood to the North. From them, Minty learned about the secret communications that occurred along trade routes, information that would prove invaluable later in her life. In this mixed atmosphere of free and enslaved blacks working side by side, Minty met John Tubman, a free black man she married in 1844. After marriage, she renamed herself Harriet, after her mother. Harriet Tubman’s owner died in 1849. When his widow planned to sell off her enslaved human beings, Harriet feared she would be sold away from everyone she loved. She had heard of an “underground railroad"[...]. So Tubman fled with two of her brothers, Ben and Harry. They eventually turned back, fearing they were lost. But in one of her sleeping spells, Harriet dreamed that she could fly like a bird. Looking down below, she saw the path to liberation. And in the autumn of 1849, she set out on her own, following the North Star to Pennsylvania, and to freedom. Tubman returned to the South 13 times to free her niece, brothers, parents, and many others. She earned the nickname Black Moses and worked diligently with fellow abolitionists to help enslaved people escape, first to the North, and later to Canada. Harriet Tubman worked as a Union army nurse, scout, and spy during the Civil War. In 1863, she became the first woman in United States history to plan and lead a military raid, liberating nearly 700 enslaved persons in South Carolina.

Le prétérit

C'est le temps du passé, révolu, terminé. Il permet de décrire des actions qui n'ont plus de lien avec le présent.

Réécrivez ce texte au prétérit.

Tina is 12, she lives in a plantation in Louisiana. Her masters are growing cotton for the booming industry in England. Whenever her mistress calls her, she hurries to see what she wants. She always looks down when her mistress addresses her. She always answers "Yes Ma'am" to whatever she is told. But, whenever she hears people whispering about the Undergroun Railroad, she opens her ears wide. She knows that one day it will be her turn: she will leave this dreadful place.

Recap from the last lesson. Give me as many elements as you can about Harriet Tubman's life.

Write down all the names or descriptive words given to the main protagonist.

Write down all the names or descriptive words given to the main protagonist.

Now circle in green the ones given to him before his kidnapping, and the ones given to him after, what can you notice?

What is different between this true life story and everything we have seen so far in this chapter?

Répétez ces phrases après l'enseignant, que remarquez-vous?

I want to ask you what part of the country you come from? I was born a free man.

Until the day I was deceived,... Kidnapped,... Do you want to survive?

L'intonation

Lisez ces phrases, et dîtes si l'intonation est montante ou descendante. Justifiez votre choix.

1. You were born a free man, weren't you?
2. Who kidnapped you?
3. You must obey your master.
4. I was beaten, raped, humiliated and persecuted.
5. Are you Solomon Northup?
6. You will sleep directly on the floor.
7. Slaves are considered as animals.

Recap from the last lesson. Expliquez quels types de phrases ont une intonation montante ou descendante.

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Global comprehension. Who? Where? When?

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Family tree of the character.

For each character, find in the text as much information as you can.

How can you summarize the life of children born into slavery?

Find in the text the event that allowed the author to write down his story. Why do you think he wrote down an autobiography?

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La voix passive (au prétérit)

La voix passive exprime le fait que le sujet subit l'action. Si on veut préciser l'agent (celui qui fait l'action), on l'introduit par by. Ex: The slaves were beaten by their master. Dans cet exemple, les esclaves subissent le fait d'être battus. Celui qui les bat est leur maître. Parfois, on ne précise pas l'agent, car il est évident. Ex: She was named Harriet (by her parents). Pour passer de la voix active à la voix passive, on fait passer le complément que l'on veut mettre en avant en position de sujet, suivi de be conjugué au temps voulu, suivi du verbe au participe passé.

The masters punished the slaves. (le verbe "to punish" est au prétérit) The slaves were punished by their masters. (be est au prétérit, "to punish" est au participe passé)

Passez ces phrases de la voix active, à la voix passive.

1. My kidnappers sold me.
2. Our owners gathered us in different groups for different kinds of work.
3. They told us to keep quiet.
4. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of slaves to escape the Southern States.
5. Abolitionists created the underground railroad.

Complétez le texte avec les mots dans la liste ci-dessous.