DIVERGENT PATHS LITERATURE

 

ENRICHMENT TOPICS/SUGGESTIONS FOR LIT JOURNALS

The following items are opportunities for you to take an *active role* in your learning with this novel.

Remember, you must include enrichment items and/or show additional effort in your Literature Journal submissions. Options include any of the items listed here, but you are not limited to what is listed below. Please take them and change them to suit your interests, or come up with your own ideas for enrichment. You may create your own version of anything listed, but DO NOT take pre-made activities, images, ideas, or items without citing your sources.

Grades will be based on overall effort and thoughtfulness in addressing the content and standards for this unit.

Don't forget to check out the Links for more information...it might spark some ideas! You can also download a copy of the Packet & Journal Enrichment Guidelines. 

Click here for the Photo Gallery.   Scroll down for ideas specific to particular chapters...

 

Activity Options:

  • written research
  • images/illustrations with captions/descriptions
  • creative writing (stories, poems, etc.)
  • puzzles (X-word, searches, cryptograms, etc.) PUZZLES MAY ONLY BE DONE ONCE PER BOOK
  • vocabulary words (with definitions, sample sentences, and/or exercise questions)
  • family trees/relationship webs
  • timeline of events
  • design political posters to show opinions of both abolitionists and slave-owners

 

FROM THE STORIES:

  • Frederick Douglass uses a "rod" as a unit of measure in his autobiography.  How long is a rod?
  • What would Mr. Covey look like if he were a deceptecon Transformer?
  • Research Frederick Douglass's family tree.  Does he have any living descendents?
  • Create an image or collage of the "Founding Mothers"--women who helped in the women's rights movement
  • What is the etymology of "suffer" and "suffrage"?  Why are they so similar in spelling but different in meaning?
  • In "Slavery's Pleasant Homes," Marion Dalcho treats her slave Rosa like a plaything to decorate and dress like a doll.  What would it be like if slaves were treated/decorated like Christmas trees?
  • Create a paper doll set (or find parts to print & color) that would imitate how Marion dresses up Rosa.
  • Many books were written for women to tell them how to dress and behave and how to treat their husbands.  What would it look like if there were a similar book for slave owners on How to Treat a Slave?
  • Create illustrations for some of Garrison's "Truisms".
  • Research Fanny Fern to find out what other articles she wrote for newspapers.