You are in charge of one book from the selection.

1

Search the Internet about your novel. You can read and select some extracts or even read the entire novel available online

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. Be ready to present it briefly.

2

Explain how these books illustrate the Underground Railroad period.

3

What are the common points and the differences between them?

4

Which one do you now feel like reading? Learning more about? Why?

Write a review: indicate the characters, the setting, the plot. Then, give your point of view. Why would you recommend this book—or not?

Méthode Je m'exprime à l'écrit p. 248

• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852.
  
• The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton, 1968.
  
• Bound for Canaan, an Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement, Fergus M. Bordewick, 2006.
  
• March , Geraldine Brooks, 2006.
  
• Unspoken: A story from the Underground Railroad , Henry Cole, 2012.
  
• The Last Runaway , Tracy Chevalier, 2013.
  
• The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead, 2016.
  

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Wade in the Water

de Ella Jenkins. Entraînez‑vous à prononcer les mots.

Would + V

– There were some people who would help slaves go North by giving them passage…
– They would never see them again.

a. Par quoi peut-on remplacer would dans ces phrases : may / will / used to / le verbe au prétérit ?

b. Déduisez les valeurs de would ici selon les catégories grammaticales suivantes :

Exercices p. 192

Précis grammatical p. 276