Daily Lessons for Teaching Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

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: Part I, Chapters One through Five Chapter 1 opens with an attack with racial motives. Chapter 2 describes the reasons for the new black housing development, with racial undertones and segregation. This lesson focuses on racial violence and segregation.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What are the titles of Chapters 1 and 2? How does each title give you an idea of what is to come? Having read...
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