Read Chapters 1-7 In "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass".
As you read the assigned texts, anytime you come to a word you don’t know—whether it’s a basic vocabulary word, a country, a famous person with cultural and historical importance—you need to look it up.
Write a Personal Dictionary that will consist of at least one strong paragraph (probably between five and eight sentences) for terms you didn’t know before encountering them in our reading.
You need 10 full entries. These definitions are not just denotative (dictionary kinds) of definitions. They are, in fact, very small essays.
The definitions should include basic denotative definitions, but should also include your thinking about the significance of the word, connotations and associations, tone, rhetorical strategy, the way it’s used in our reading.
Its effect on its context. All your definitions MUST be entirely in your own words. You must use quotation marks and cite anything you quote, even if it’s from a dictionary source.
