Daily Lessons for Teaching Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963

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 opening chapter, two Negro groups split off from the First Baptist Church of Montgomery. The first group calls its church First Baptist and the second group calls its church Dexter Avenue. First Baptist Church has a large, poorer congregation, while Dexter Avenue attracts a middle class congregation. The aim of this lesson is to examine the relationship between blacks and Christianity.

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