Go Tell it On the Mountain Lesson Plan

Slavery's Shadow

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

To understand the ever-present boundary and threat of violence that constrains the world of the people in the book and originates in white America’s racism and the legacy of slavery.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.A

Structure:

Slavery, and the violence of whites against their black slaves, looms large over Florence’s chapter. Her flashback opens on the night when whites threatened to torch a black community because Deborah’s father dared to be angry when his daughter is attacked by a group of black men;...