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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 author uses family stories as one research method for writing this book. The objective of this lesson is to bring awareness to methods of research.

1) 1. For class discussion: Ask students how the author comes to know about the life of Kunta in Africa. (Most will know from the television series that the author is a descendant of Kunta.) Even if the author heard...
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