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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 details the life of Kunta Kinte in Gambia, Africa and his capture by slavers in 1750.
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Everyone should know where they come from, even if their ancestors suffered an evil as great as slavery. Background is more than just tracing a geneology. 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. 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? Who will not remember the image of the slave master taking a teenage girl from her family's hovel as a "bed-wench"? And then there was the slave who found out late in life that his master was indeed his father. All of these scenes are in Roots.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out 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 by the Congress. (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, he had supported the position of
the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, that slavery in the Southern
States had to be left alone in order to obtain Southern support for the Revolution
and the Constitution. At the end of his life, Franklin gave his support to efforts to abolish
slavery.
The Learning Guide to Roots Vol. 1 contains sections on the Benefits of the film, 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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