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\nCreative Writing Unit: Analyzing, Interpreting, Discussing and Writing Various Genres of African-American Literature\n

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\nA six-week unit takes high schoolers through various works of African-American literature, including poems, plays, and short stories. The lesson plan format includes a week-by-week description of activities, goals, materials, and...\n
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\nLiterature and Art Through Our Eyes: African-American Artists\n

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\nExamine the contributions of African-Americans in the worlds of art and literature. Over the course of a few days, young scholars will read and analyze a poem, a short story, and a piece of art. They complete a range of...\n
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\nThe South, the North and the Great Migration: Blues and Literature\n

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\nHere is a complex lesson plan that interweaves the history of the Jim Crow South and the Great Migration with the study of poetry, art, and blues music from the Harlem Renaissance. The plan helps young historians develop a deep...\n
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\nAfrican American Literature in Art\n

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\nYoung scholars compare art and literature by examining a contemporary painting by Glenn Ligon and the essay by James Baldwin that inspired it. They write an essay about a personal experience that relates to the theme of being an \"outsider.\"\n
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\n\"Portrait\n\n
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\nPortrait of The African American Family\n

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\nStudents examine how African American families were affected by slavery. As a class, they watch and read King's \"I Have a Dream Speech\" and write a paper on how this message relates to families. In their journals, they compare and...\n
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\nAfrican-American Art and the Political Dissent during the Harlem Renaissance\n

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\nLearners are introduced to the culture of African American art. Using the internet, they research the events surrounding the Harlem Renaissance and discover how it produced a wide variety of art and literature. To end the lesson, by...\n
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\nThe African-American Experience in the 20th Century through the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and the Novels of Bruce Brooks a\n

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\nStudents attempt to answer how African-American, Latino, and white students address race relations in the United States in the future.\n
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\nAfrican-American Autobiography for the Middle School Student\n

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\nLearners are introduced to the characteristics of an autobiography. For each author, they research their life and works and discuss why it reflects different time periods of African-Americans. In groups, they brainstorm characteristics...\n
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\nCelebrate A People!\n

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\nStudents explore African-American students literature as an integral building block in empowering all students to a better awareness when reading and writing. They use as a productive Social Studies tool for overall understanding of the...\n
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\nReliving History through Slave Narratives\n

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\nHelpful for an American literature or history unit, this lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct their own...\n
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\nThe Jacket: Journal Templates Teacher's Guide\n

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\nExplore this story involving prejudice and racism to enhance learners' comprehension skills. The story The Jacket by Andrew Clements involves an African American boy who is falsely accused of stealing someone's jacket. This teacher's...\n
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\nSlavery and Freedom\n

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\nHow do nineteenth-century texts by African American and Native American writers contribute to the country's ideals of freedom and individuality? Learners explore the topic by watching and discussing a video, reading biographies, writing...\n
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\nAmerican Families: Portraits of African-American Families\n

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\nStudents develop a greater understanding and appreciation for their families. They increase personal self-esteem and pride as a result of studying about families through literature. They assess the importance of family values and...\n
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\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston\n

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\nZora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes Were Watching God has been highly praised and severely criticized for its depiction of African American folk culture. A set of primary source materials, including photographs, articles, essays, and...\n
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\nStruggle for Equality\n

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\nStudents read and discuss a selection of news clippings, sermons, and narratives that depict the continued struggle for equality and mistreatment of African American citizens. They present a \"60 Minutes\"-style news program with the...\n
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\nUtilizing Art, Literature and Film to Teach Black History\n

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\nFifth graders are introduced to different aspects of African-American history through literature, art, and films. As a class, they are read a story about the Underground Railroad, identify the main characters and put the events into...\n
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\nAfrican American Traditions: Cameroonian and African-American Folktales\n

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\nStudents compare Cameroonian and African-American folktales. For this folktales lesson, students participate in a jigsaw activity that requires them to read \"The Owl Never Sleeps as Night,\" \"Why the Lizard Often Nods,\" \"Tappin, the Land...\n
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\nFamily Origins and American Cultural Pluralism\n

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\nStudents explore, analyze and discuss family origins, special legacies, and racial/cultural groups in literature and art that exposes them to positive examples in African-American history and culture. They encounter examples from dance,...\n
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\nHarlem Renaissance\n

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\nStudents investigate the African American culture in the 1920's and the Harlem Renaissance. They read and analyze poems written by poets of the Harlem Renaissance, listen to jazz music and identify the characteristics of the music, and...\n
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\nMosaic America: Paths To The Present\n

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\nSeventh graders study the ideologies of life, values, love, peace and struggle of African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans as citizens of the United States. Authors and artists are used as tools to open the eyes of the students...\n
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\nWillie and Friends: Overcomers in the Land Stories by Faith Ringgold\n

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\nStudents use puppets and plays to examine the role of African Americans throughout history. After being read a story by a puppet, they respond to each one in writing. Individually, they write a story about a place they have wanted to...\n
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\nQuilt to Freedom\n

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\nStudents investigate the Underground Railroad. In this African-American history lesson, students listen to the book Clara and the Freedom Quilt and use map skills to identify the various locations in the book. Students create a freedom...\n
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\nDeep like Rivers: Four African American Poets of the 1920s and 1930s\n

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\nStudents examine work by outstanding African American poets from the time period of the 1920s and 1930s. They study aspects of American and African American social, cultural and artistic history that influenced the content of some of the...\n
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\nLanguage Arts, Social Studies, African Americans, The Blues, To Kill A Mockingbird\n

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\nAfrican American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. To help students understand...\n
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