Speech in the Virginia Convention – Patrick Henry

My Bondage and My Freedom – Frederick Douglass wkst

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate the question as part of the answer.

Speech in the Virginia Convention – Patrick Henry

1. Why does Henry believe that compromise with the British is not a workable solution?

2. How does Henry answer the objection that the colonists are not ready to fight?

3. To what does Henry compare the colonists’ situation?

4. Find an instance where Henry uses a series of rhetorical questions. What purpose does this series of questions serve?

5. Find and list an instance of repetition.

My Bondage and My Freedom – Frederick Douglass

6. How does Douglass learn to read?

7. Describe the changes in Mrs. Auld’s behavior toward young Douglass.

8. What is responsible for his transformation from a “light-hearted” boy to a “wretched and gloomy” one?

9. How does Douglass’s experience prove his mistress’s belief that education and slavery are incompatible?

10. Go the opposite direction. If an American teenager blows off his or her education, and drops out, does that person end up becoming a slave of sorts?