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Close Reading of informational/literary nonfiction Texts (continued)
Writing Prompt: Based on your current understanding of the passage, summarize Douglass’s point of view and tone about slavery. Write a paragraph that explains your interpretation of his perspective on this topic. Be sure to:
• Identify the subject, speaker, purpose and tone of the passage in a topic sentence • Provide several pieces of textual evidence that support your statement
• Explain how the evidence supports your topic sentence.
ACTIvITy 2
Collaborative Practice
Look carefully at the map that follows. It depicts the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes that existed in the 19th-century United States. With the aid of abolitionists and sympathetic allies, an estimated 100,000 escaped slaves had gained their freedom by 1850 via the Underground Railroad.
First Reading: What do you see?
As you look at the map, what catches your eye? What details do you notice? How would you describe the details in this map to someone who could not see it? To answer this question, keep your responses only on what you can see in the map.
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