Teaching The Road to Memphis | 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: Chapter 1, A Fine New Car The Road to Memphis is set in a time when racism was running rampant. Black people were not yet given equal rights and segregation was prevalent. This lesson will focus on the story from a historical perspective.

1) 1. Class discussion: What is significant about the historical perspective of this story? What do you know about 1941, and this era in...
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