Teaching The Blues I'm Playing | 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 Blues I'm Playing" is a period piece that takes place around the 1920s, a time when African Americans were still treated as inferior, as well as a time where the Great Depression was imminent. All the different facets of the time period and place that both make up the setting serve as a backdrop for a -- at first glance -- simple story that turns...
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