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ROOTS VOL. IV
SUBJECTS --- U.S./1812 - 1860 & Diversity;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Rebellion;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Respect.

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 IV shows slave life in the early 1800s and concentrates on the disruptive effects of slavery on family and personal relationships.

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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 below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to "Roots Vol. IV".

Slave families were often disrupted and family members sold to distant plantations. This practice was so common that the marriage vows of slaves were modified. The traditional words "til death to us part" were changes to the words "til death or distance do us part." As "Roots" shows, "enlightened" slave holders tried to keep families together but would split them up without compunction if a slave ran away or was disruptive to the plantation.

The Learning Guide to "Roots Vol. IV" contains sections 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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