1619 Project Lesson Plan

Read the following sections:

· Poem by Tyehimba Jess on the Black Seminoles

· Fiction by Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

· Fiction by ZZ Packer on the New Orleans massacre of 1866

· American Popular Music by Wesley Morris

· Fiction by Yaa Gyasi on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment

· Fiction by Jacqueline Woodson on Sgt. Isaac Woodard

· Sugar by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.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...