Day 1

Stamped from the Beginning Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Prologue and Part 1.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Prologue

In the prologue, Kendi introduces several of the important terms and concepts that he will use throughout Stamped from the Beginning. He argues that all racist ideas are the product of a triangular struggle between separatists, assimilationists, and antiracists. He points...

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