Daily Lessons for Teaching The Alchemy of Race and Rights

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 I, Excluding Voices, A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style, Chapter 1, The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea Patricia Williams hated being a lawyer, but practiced and taught commercial law, also finding herself confronted with heart-wrenching stories. As an African-American woman, she deeply sympathized with the plight of women and African Americans in the United States. The objective of this lesson is...
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