David Drake (c. 1801 – c. 1870s), also known as Dave the Potter and Dave the Slave, was an American potter who lived in Edgefield, South Carolina.
Dave produced over 100 alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs between the 1820's and the 1860's. An enslaved African American, he often signed his works "Dave." He is recognized as the first enslaved potter to inscribe his work, during a time when most slaves were illiterate, often forbidden from literacy, and anonymous. Dave inscribed his work with poetry, often using rhyming couplets, as well as his signature.
Dave produced over 100 alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs between the 1820's and the 1860's. An enslaved African American, he often signed his works "Dave." He is recognized as the first enslaved potter to inscribe his work, during a time when most slaves were illiterate, often forbidden from literacy, and anonymous. Dave inscribed his work with poetry, often using rhyming couplets, as well as his signature.
Where was Dave from and around what time did he live?
What was Dave’s life like?
Would you consider Dave a hero? Why or why not?
What impact has Dave’s pottery work had on the culture of his time, and our current culture’s frame of mind?
What have you learned from Dave?
What was Dave’s life like?
Would you consider Dave a hero? Why or why not?
What impact has Dave’s pottery work had on the culture of his time, and our current culture’s frame of mind?
What have you learned from Dave?
Artist and Potter, Jim McDowell, speaks about the life story and work of David Drake, a pot turner from the late 1800's and slave from the Carolina's. He demonstrates throwing clay on the potter's wheel while discussing the background of David's work.
Jim McDowell is a potter from Asheville, North Carolina. He continues the tradition of making face jugs. Face jugs were made in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia by African-American slaves during the mid-1800s.
- Where is Jim from and what does he do?
- What is Jim’s life like?
- Would you consider Jim a hero? Why or why not?
- What impact has Jim’s pottery work had on our current culture’s frame of mind?
- What have you learned from Jim?
Formative Wheel Throwing Practice
The following videos have been borrowed from Youtube. These videos are good references and share many similar points that Manders makes during demonstration.
All videos will be removed from this site upon creator's request.
After watching the videos, go to Schoology and respond to the assignment prompts found on the following pdf file. Submit your assignment as a document.
All videos will be removed from this site upon creator's request.
After watching the videos, go to Schoology and respond to the assignment prompts found on the following pdf file. Submit your assignment as a document.
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Mr. Tim Videos
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Trimming with Jon the Potter
Jean Michel Basquiat (a.k.a. SAMO)
Your Pottery Summative Assignment
Create a piece of pottery, thrown on the potters wheel, that is depicted with an original rhyming couplet that expresses your own cultural traditions, frame of mind, feelings, life-struggles, sense of humor, self expression, etc.
Examples of Rhyming Couplets
In poetry, a couplet is a pair of lines in a verse. Typically, they rhyme and have the same meter, or rhythm. They make up a unit or complete thought.
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Rhyming Couplet Examples
She was a little tense The notice made no sense I saw a little hermit crab His coloring was oh so drab It's hard to see the butterfly Because he flies across the sky Hear the honking of the goose I think he's angry at the moose His red sports car is just a dream It needs no gas, it runs on steam The children like the ocean shore We want to leave but they want more I made the cookies one by one I hear the bell, so they are done My cat, she likes to chase a mouse, Especially one that's in the house Lightening, thunder, all around Soon the rain falls on the ground I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack jump over the candlestick |
Rhyming Couplets in Classic Literature
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope "'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." - "Epistles to Several Persons," Alexander Pope "O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme!" - "Cooper's Hill," John Denham "Time and Death shall depart, and say in flying, Love has found out a way to live, by dying." - "One Happy Moment," John Dryden "So, lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night."- "Love's Alchemy," John Donne |
Rhyming Couplets from William Shakespeare
"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!" - Hamlet "This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover." - Romeo and Juliet "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - A Midsummer Night's Dream "For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." - "Sonnet 94" "Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter In sleep a king, but waking no such matter." - "Sonnet 87" |
