Daily Lessons for Teaching All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In the introduction Stack talks about the different perceptions that people have. The objective of this lesson is to discuss perception.

1) 1) Class discussion: What was Stack's perception when she first arrived? Why? What was the black people's perception of Stack when she first arrived? What was the black people's perception of their circumstances? What was the perspective of the white community toward those...
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