Alright, I’ll wrap up today with this Everyday Edit worksheet on Olympic legend Jesse Owens. If you like this worksheet, or the many others of them I’ve posted in observance of Black History Month 2020, you should click on over to Education world, where you’ll find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edits available…for free!
You will find typos in this document: that’s the point! Be sure your students catch–and correct–them.
“Who is the hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940)? Bigger Thomas, a black man from Chicago who murders a white woman and is executed for it.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Moving right along on this cold and rainy day, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Richard Wright. I assume I needn’t belabor his importance in American letters in the twentieth century.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“It [the assassination of John F. Kennedy] was, as I saw it, a case of ‘the chickens coming home to roost.’ I said that the hate in white people had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down the nation’s Chief Magistrate.”
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged black history, united states history
Alright, it’s soon time for me to leave. Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Kwanzaa. If you like using Everyday Edits in your classroom then you are in luck: Education World will give you a yearlong supply of them on a broad range of topics.
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“Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)? He has no name. He is a young man from the south who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
His premature death robbed the world of a keen, compassionate intellect. Since reading The Fire Next Time in my early twenties, my eyes have been wide open to his genius. If you want to know more about James Baldwin, I cannot recommend highly or often enough Raoul Peck’s magisterial documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”
So, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on James Baldwin does not do the man justice, but it might serve as an introduction to him for your students.
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“Invisible Man: (1952) A novel by Ralph Ellison. Although he wrote only two novels, Invisible Man firmly established Ellison’s reputation. This powerful story is about a nameless black man’s search for his own identity in a world that is essentially inimical to him. Through the narrator’s transition from an initial acceptance of the guise invented for him by the whites of a southern town, to his identification and eventual rejection of his role in a Black Nationalist Group in Harlem, where he becomes no more than a puppet and a pawn, Ellison portrays the irony of the African-American search for self, a portrayal that avoids excessive emotionalism through the use of irony and wit. The narrator’s struggle for identity, though perceived through the black/white racial dichotomy, is universal. In its perception of the absurdity of human existence, and its handling of this central existential theme, it has been ranked with the works of Camus and Sartre….”
[This entry in Benet’s goes on to erroneously identify Shadow and Act, a book of Ralph Ellison’s essays, as a novel. Hence the ellipses, which omits that error. That said, Mr. Ellison’s Collected Essays, which includes Shadow and Act, is a supremely edifying book. And, while searching for the preceding link, I noticed that The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison was published in December of 2019. I will certainly be on the lookout for that volume, and very much look forward to reading it.]
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
“What does the “T” in Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) stand for? He was born Booker Taliaferro. He adopted the name “Washington” during his school years. His works include the autobiography Up from Slavery (1901).”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
OK, for week one of Black History Month 2020, here is a reading on Alex Haley along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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