Passage Picker On

Next Stop Freedom Part One

 

1. Pick out the passage you would like to share with your group and write down the page 2 and paragraph 1. 

 

2. Write down the first two words, Emily remembered and the last two words brother away. 

 

3. The passage that I chose is a great example of a scary passage. 

 

4. This passage is a scary type of passage because Emily is being taken away from her mother.  She is only a little girl, and has to leave her mother.  If I was taken away from my mother I would be scared. 

 

5. Think of a good thinking question about the passage.  Write it down along with the answer to this question.  What do you think Emily could do to get out of this situation?  Describe your answer.  I think Emily could have pretended to be very sick.  The master would not have wanted a girl that was sick.  If she coughed and made her self throw up, maybe she would not have been sold. 

 

6. Answer one of these questions in complete sentence's):  Why did the author include this passage in the story?  What does this passage add to the story?  I believe the author uses this passage to catch the reader’s attention.  This is in the beginning of the book and caught my attention.  This passage makes the reader want to read more of the book to see what happens.        

 

 

 

1. p. 19 par. 7

 

2. I’ll follow…to freedom. 

 

3. This is an example of a foreshadowing passage.

 

4. This passage is foreshadowing because Isaiah and his sister would follow the North Star to freedom. 

 

5. What was so important about the North Star?  How did the slaves find this star?  The slaves would follow the North Star because it guides them north.  If they followed North Star they would end up in the north.  The north was slave free.  The slaves would look for the Big Dipper.  The Big Dipper has the North Star in it.  They would look for the North Star inside of the Big Dipper. 

 

6. This passage adds understanding.  This tells how the slaves navigated their way up north.  This passage also foreshadows how Emily and Isaiah will escape from slavery. 

 

1. p. 20 par. 7

 

2. Paddyrollers, child … escaped slaves. 

 

3. This is an example of a historical passage.

 

4. This passage is a historical passage because it uses words that would have been used back then.  This word paddyroller is not a word that you would use today, but was used then.  This makes the passage historically correct. 

 

5. What was the role of the paddyrollers?  Who were they?   Paddyrollers were people who caught runaway slaves, and took them back to the south.  Anyone could be a paddyroller.  Most of them were whites, trying to make some money.  They would search all over the north and south to try to find run away slaves. 

 

6. This passage makes the book historically accurate.  This word is better to use that slave catchers.  This passage makes you think you are in this time period. 

 

 

1. p. 22 par. 9

 

2. Not that … our own. 

 

3. This is an important passage. 

 

4. This passage is an important passage because it shows that the slaves have hope.  They have a preacher encouraging them and giving them hope.  I think that going to this church service gets the slaves through the week. 

 

5. Why was it important for the slaves to go to their own services?  These services gave the slaves hope and encouragement.  IF they only heard white preachers speak they would not get any encouragement.  They would only get discouragement from the white preachers.  Slaves going to their own services really encouraged the slaves.       

 

6. This passage lets the reader see that the slaves lived their own society behind slavery.  They had their own little community.  On Sundays, at the services, the slaves did what they wanted.  They talked about everything and were encouraged.  This passage shows us another side of slaves that most people did not know about.