Unit Summary |
Unit Purpose |
Students will engage in pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities pertaining to the autobiography Black Boy by Richard Wright. Students will learn about the Jim Crow Era, read the autobiography, and write an autobiographical incident on an experience from their past.
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The purpose of this unit is for students to develop an understanding of the autobiography, connotation & denotation as it relates to author tone, difficult vocabulary, racism, and the Jim Crow Era, the stereotypes afforded African Americans during the early to mid-1900s, and the values of the author vs. the values students themselves have.
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