Daily Lessons for Teaching This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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: Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism It is very important that the students' knowledge on feminism is understood by both themselves and the teacher to gain the deepest understanding of the book possible. Without this pre-teaching and prior knowledge discussion, misconceptions regarding the students' prior knowledge on feminism can mislead them and their understanding of the material delivered in the...
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