What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Lesson Plan

In this lesson plan, students will have opportunities throughout various activities to use the Internet as a tool for furthering research and complementing discussion. Besides that, they will have a couple of chances to use technology in a more focused matter. In the Day 1 activity "African-American Culture and Literature", students will be tasked with using Prezi to create a visually engaging presentation about a seminal African-American writer who they are learning about. And then, in the Day 2 activity "You Are What You Speak: Frederick Douglass Speech Re-enactment", students will work in groups to pair powerful readings of Douglass's famous speech with complementary graphics that...