Teaching To Be a Slave | 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: Prologue: In this section, the author relates the very beginnings of the enslavement of Africans. This lesson will discuss the reasons why slavery began and how Africans came be to chosen as the people to enslave.

1) 1. Journal Writing: Answer the following questions - Why did Colonists decide that they needed to have slaves? Were there reasons good enough to enslave groups of people?...
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