Teaching Everything That Rises Must Converge | 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: In the story "Everything That Rises Must Converge," Julian and his mother represent the two sides of the issue of racial integration seen in the U.S. South. The objective of this lesson is to identify and explore the ways that these two characters are developed as representations of these social views.

1) 1) Provide an introduction to the historical period in which this story is...
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