Saturday, February 16, 2008

Journal Entry-February 11, 2008

Aim: How can we use a Graphic Organizer to better identify and Compare Equianos similarities and differences to Harper's and Whitfields poems?
Do Now: Compare one of the poems to Equiano's poem
Response: I noticed that in the poem "America" by James Monroe Whitfiel is very similar to Equianso slave narrative because both explain how they were taken form their land and forced to be slaves when in lines 7&8 explain in the poem "America", it says "To tear the black man from his soil and forced him here to delve and toil.

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