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Ann PetryA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. What is the Underground Railroad, and why is it an important part of history?
Teaching Suggestion: This prompt offers an opportunity to assess what students do and do not know about the Underground Railroad before beginning Petry’s book. After a preliminary assessment, you might offer students one or both of the resources below and then ask them to revise their answers to reflect what they have learned.
Teaching Suggestion: Petry’s book explores enslaved people’s frequent use of Biblical allegory. Students may find the distinction among “allegory,” “symbolism,” and “analogy” confusing, even after reading definitions and watching the videos linked below. It may be helpful to students to discuss the three terms as a class and draw a Venn diagram that illustrates where these three terms overlap and where their meanings diverge.
By Ann Petry
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