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Roots (Vol. I)
SUBJECTS — U.S./Colonial Period & Diversity; World/Africa;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Coming of Age;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Responsibility.
Age: 12+; Not Rated; Drama; 1977; 90 minutes; Color.
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Roots is a video presentation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Volume I describes the life of Kunta Kinte in Gambia, Africa and his capture by slavers in 1750.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to Roots helps teachers use the film to introduce important aspects of the black experience in the U.S., including slavery and segregation.
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Everyone should know where they come from. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley was a seminal work in helping black Americans evaluate their past. For Americans who are not black the series is an important lesson in the evils of oppression and the history of their country. Some of the images in the television mini series Roots will stay with viewers forever. Who can forget a strong and vital man hobbled by having his foot cut off because he sought freedom and ran from the plantation? Then there is the image of the slave master taking a teenage girl from her family's hovel as a "bed-wench." And what about the slave who discovered late in life that his master was his father. All of these scenes are vividly portrayed in Roots.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers to develop lesson plans, and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to Roots Vol. 1.
Many of the Founding Fathers, including those who held slaves, realized that slavery was a terrible evil. Thomas Jefferson put language condemning slavery into the draft Declaration of Independence that he submitted to the Continental Congress. That language was excised at the request of Southern representatives. (However, at the end of his life, in his will, Jefferson permitted most of his slaves to be sold to pay his debts. The only exception was the Hemings family.) George Washington's will freed all of his slaves and established a trust fund to help them adjust to life as free persons. Benjamin Franklin, who at one time had owned a slave, realized the evil of slavery. Nevertheless, during both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention he ultimately supported the grand compromise protecting slavery in the South. This was necessary to secure Southern support for the Revolution and the new government. However, in his later years, Franklin gave his support to efforts to abolish slavery.
The Learning Guide to the film Roots Vol. 1 contains sections on Benefits of the Movie, Possible Problems, Helpful Background, Discussion Questions, Links to the Internet, and Bridges to Reading. The Discussion Questions are divided into three categories: Subject Matter, Social-Emotional Learning, and Moral-Ethical Emphasis.
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