By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1. identify the writing conventions of autobiography, memoir and journalism.
2. trace the development of Frederick Douglass’s character from childhood to manhood, noting how and why he reached his life crisis and chose to act.
3. analyze antagonists and their role in Douglass’s life and narrative.
4. identify and analyze the effective use of literary elements and devices such as sarcasm, analogy, allusion, symbols, apostrophe, synechdoche, alliteration, personification, and irony.
5. identify and analyze techniques and examples of verbal irony and situational irony.
6. analyze the effect of word choice and sentence structure to express meaning, tone and theme.
7. analyze the depiction of women in the narrative.
8. analyze the development and depiction of religion in the narrative.
9. analyze the relationship between Douglass’s purpose and audience and his narrative’s elements and structure.
10. offer a close reading of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and support interpretations and assertions using evidence from the text and knowledge of his biography, literary allusions, and period history.
11. connect the experiences detailed in Douglass' narrative to the poem "Douglass" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. 

I hold a Ph.D. in English Literature and Language with a specialization in Nineteenth-Century African American and American Literature, Epistolary Theory, and African American Epistolary Literature. I have written, published, and lectured on slavery and freedom for over a decade.  I have taught Douglass' narrative since 2000.  Additionally, in 2010, I was a participant and trainee at The College Board's AP Language and Composition training workshop.  Douglass' narrative has appeared on the AP Literature and Composition Exams countless times.

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This class requires outside reading each week.   Students should expect to spend roughly an hour to an hour and a half on work outside of class.  Learners should expect to read 30-40 pages each week.
授業以外に週あたり 2 - 4 時間の学習が期待されます
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Students in class are not formally assessed; however, if your learner needs graded work for this class, please do not hesitate to send me a message.
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We will read and refer to Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.