Twelve Years a Slave: Using Film to Explore Freedom and (In)Humanity

FILM:Twelve Years a Slave

Handout/Materials

Hollywood or History? graphic organizer

Web Links

What should students know or understand at the completion of the unit?

All Grade Levels

Additional Questions

List all of the important indicators of achievement (important people, places, and events) and vocabulary students will need to know at the conclusion of the lesson.

Abduction: Restraint against one’s will and transport to another location.

Acquaint: To get to know someone.

Abolitionist: Someone who is against the institution of slavery.

Benevolence: The state of being kind or showing good will.

Beseech: To make a desperate appeal or to ask in a pressing manner.