1619 Project Lesson Plan

Read the following sections:

· “Pecan Pioneer” by Tiya Miles

· Poems by Rita Dove and Camille T. Dungy on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

· Poem by Joshua Bennett on the Black Panther Party

· Mass Incarceration by Bryan Stevenson

· The Wealth Gap by Trymaine Lee

· Short Dramatic Work by Lynn Nottage on The birth of hop-hop

· Fiction by Kiese Laymon on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “rainbow coalition” speech

· Poem by Clint Smith on the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7

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