Teaching Shadow and Act | 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: Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 1 The author's introduction to this book of essays, articles, interviews and speeches lays out three major themes: literature, music (jazz/blues), and the complex relationship between the "Negro American subculture and North American culture as a whole." Through literature and music Ellison sought to find his own identity within the cultures of Negro America and the socio-political reality...
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