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Lesson 1 (from Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave)
Objective
Students will investigate Gates’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the text of Stony the Road and will make predictions about the epigraph section’s possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Gates includes at the start of Part One of the book Stony the Road includes two quotes, one from 1862 and one from 2017. The first quote expresses a sense of hope, with the writer C.P.S. declaring that “Old things are passing away, and eventually, old prejudices must follow” (1). However, the quote from 2017 makes it clear that the renewed willingness of white nationalists to shout their hatred in public without fear of recrimination, a phenomenon Gates connects to the end of Obama’s term and the beginning of Trump’s term, is tied to a long history of white supremacy-fueled ideals. The juxtaposition of these two eras within...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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