Writing Prompts (student choice or teacher directed)
TWO’S COMPANY?
One of the decisions Lucy needs to make in Part 2 in connection with her attempt to escape is whether to try her luck on her own or to go off with Henry. What do you imagine are the advantages and disadvantages of going with Henry? What might be the advantages and disadvantages of going off alone?
INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE.
Probably since you were a young child at school, your teachers have reported to your parents periodically about your ability to work independently and also your ability to work cooperatively with others. Both are important. At one time, school meant sitting quietly and working mostly by yourself. Then, in the last decades of the 20th century, researchers discovered that once we leave school and go into the workplace, there are more occupations in which we need to work with others interdependently than ones in which it is important to be able to work alone. Which kind of work is most difficult for you to do? What makes that kind of work so difficult? Write a letter to your parents as if you are your teacher, and describe yourself as an independent or interdependent learner. What would your teacher say about you? What are your strengths? On what do you need to work? Give examples.
TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, A SLAVE.
If you had been enslaved on a large plantation that was surrounded by other large plantations, you would have known the number of enslaved black people nearby outnumbered the number of free white people considerably. You can safely assume most enslaved people were neither cowardly nor stupid, and there were good reasons why, historically, rebellions or escapes were not often attempted. What were all the forces and
controls that kept the enslaved from rebelling or escaping? Try to think of what their beliefs and attitudes might have been as well as all the controls that were in place in the South to keep people from rebelling or running away. Then, imagine you are one of the enslaved people on
the King Plantation. Another slave asks you to join him/her in an escape or a rebellion. Write the speech in which you explain to that person all the reasons you think it’s a bad and/or dangerous idea. Use what you have learned from the game and other sources as evidence for
your decision.
Primary Sources to examine after Part 2.
Do you think slave pass below would have helped Lucy on her escape? Why or why not?
Slave Pass PDF
Part 2 Review Questions PDF - Followed by class discussion. Each student may have a different part to add to the story depending on the choices they made (cause and effect).