Teaching Black Boy | Daily Lessons

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: The opening chapter examines Richard's early years living with both his father and mother. Eventually his father left his family for another woman and he states from that moment on, he always associated hunger and poverty with his father. The aim of this lesson is to examine Richard's upbringing.

1) 1) Class discussion. How do the students think Richard's upbringing molded him into the successful person...
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