Ain´t I a woman?
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Enunciat
ACTIVITY 1.
Did you know that Sojourner Truth was such an incredible and brave woman?
<https://youtu.be/Ry_i8w2rdQY> (08-04-2022)
-Watch the video and give the meanings of these words:
Carriages, ditches, mud, puddles, to plough, to plant, barn and lash.
-Read the text and identify those words. Make sentences using them.
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
-What do you think the title AIN´T I A WOMAN refers to?
Observacions i context
Students discuss in groups the meaning of the title of the speech: AIN'T I A WOMAN? and listen to the first part of the video, emphasising the vocabulary.
The text is photocopied and unknown words are underlined.
Their chosen name is highly symbolic as in English sojourner is the agent form of the verb to sojourn, meaning to reside temporarily. The compound thus seems to mean The truth of the temporary resident.
In 1997, the robotic rover on NASA's Mars Pathfinder Mission to the planet Mars was named Sojourner after Sojourner Truth.
Early women abolitionists include:
- Lucretia Mott (1793-1880). She was a women's rights advocate, a pioneer in the feminist movement, who went down in history for, among other things, her involvement in organising the Seneca Falls Convention.
- Elizabeth Cady Stant (1815-1902). American suffragist and abolitionist who participated in the Seneca Falls Declaration. She was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1892.
- Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885). She was an American abolitionist. Elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and editor of the anti-slavery newspaper The Non-Resistan.
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906). She was an American feminist suffragist, human rights advocate and writer.
Descripció
We will try to improve the comprehension of oral texts based on a video. We will watch the first part of Sojourner Truth's speech, and we will share our ideas about the suggestions in the title AIN'T I A WOMAN?
We will also practise the production of oral texts, exchanging ideas with the rest of the students.
Contextual models and commonly used discourse genres.