EVALUATION TITLE: ANALYZE AND INFER
Watch the following video.
As you watch the video, think about the following:
What do you think the song means about Being Beaten?
Why do you think Joe chuckles so much?
How did you react to listening to the interchange between Joe and the interviewer knowing that Joe was a very old man who had been a slave in the South?
What do you think about when you hear Joe McDonald talking from personal experience about being a slave picking cotton in the American South?
Why does he use a word that non-black people should not use in today's world?
Does it have a different meaning now than it did then?
What reality does this song depict for Joe and people like him?
In what ways is that reality still present in today's world, perhaps just dressed up to be more covert?