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A variety of lesson plans
about Richard Wright
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This reading group guide includes background, 6
discussion questions, an author biography and an
online excerpt. |
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The History of Jim Crow
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Explore
the complex African-American experience of segregation
from the 1870s through the 1950s. |
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The
Power of Words |
Grades
9-12 |
The Power of Words curriculum is about the language
that captures the multiethnic temper of our times.
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Roads to Freedom |
Grades
9-12 |
Students will experience the Roads to Freedom and
use the information as a starting point for further
research. Using tools from the National Archives
education site, students will learn in more depth
about the various roads through the use of primary
source documents. |
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Before,
During, and After the Emancipation Proclamation |
Grades
9-12 |
This lesson challenges students to investigate the
Emancipation Proclamation, the events that led to
it, and the cultural climate that followed it. Students
will analyze the ramifications of these events while
gaining background information about the Civil War
and President Lincoln. |
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Families in Bondage |
Grades
9-12 |
This two-part lesson plan draws on letters written
by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks
to loved ones still in bondage, singling out a few
among the many slave experiences to offer students
a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African
American family life. |
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A
Case Study: Slavery and
Anti-Slavery in Philadelphia, PA
(17th-19th
Centuries)
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Grades
9-12 |
This mini-unit is a case study to help students
understand the enslavement of Africans in a northern
city, Philadelphia, and the roles African Americans
played in the Abolition Movement in Philadelphia.
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The
Bondwoman's Narrative
Lesson Plan Unit
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Grades
9-12 |
The focus is on The Bondwoman's Narrative
as a primary source, with secondary emphasis, research,
and discussion on the factors/influences surrounding
the novel as a historical text. |
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The
Melrose House and Multigenre Writing |
Grades 7-12 |
In this unit, students will travel virtually through
the Melrose house, one of the wealthiest homes of
19th century Natchez, Mississippi. Students will
have the opportunity to learn about the lives and
conditions of slaves as they "travel" through the
interactive online house and slave quarters. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird:
A Historical Perspective |
Grades
7-12 |
Students gain a sense of the living history that
surrounds the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Valley
of the Shadow |
Grades
7-12 |
A
collection of lesson plans about many aspects of
slavery |
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Free Blacks in Antebellum
Mississippi |
Grades
7-12 |
In this lesson, students will become acquainted
with the free black population of Mississippi, the
prevailing attitudes of slaveholders toward this
class, and the efforts of the American and Mississippi
Colonization Societies to resettle the free individuals
in Africa. |
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A
Picture is Worth a Thousand Words |
Grades
6-12 |
In her paintings, Johnnie Mae Maberry-Gilbert depicts
facets of the lives of the enslaved. Students will
use these messages to arrive at a more complete
view of life under slavery. |
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The Glory Field |
Grades
6-8 |
The focus of this lesson is on conflict, characterization,
and the journey motif presented in The Glory
Field . Each of the novel's six sections presents
a family member whose conflict is directly related
to the historical time and whose physical and emotional
journeys lead the character to a new level of maturity.
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Sweet
Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
Grades
2-8 |
The lessons in this unit are to be used with a study
on slavery. Through the literature, students will
discuss slavery across the curriculum. The children's
book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
introduces the audience to a young slave girl who
learns to sew and creates a quilt that guides slaves
to freedom. |
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The Life of a Slave |
Grades
3-5 |
Explore the rich variety of African-American literature
in these five chapters, beginning with the poetry
and slave narratives of the late 18th century and
culminating in the work of vital contemporary artists.
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Slave
Narratives |
Grades
3-5 |
The realities of slavery and Reconstruction hit
home in poignant oral histories from the Library
of Congress. |
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Slavery and the Making of
America |
All Grades |
Many
lesson plans for each of elementary, middle, and
high school levels
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