Day 2

We Need New Names Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students read How They Appeared, We Need New Names, Shhhh, and Blak Power.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.A

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

How They Appeared

This is the first chapter in which the perspective shifts, and young Darling ceases to be the narrator. She is replaced by an identity-less adult voice, and the book briefly shifts to a third person narrative.

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