The New Jim Crow

Lesson Plan 1: The Language of Race

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: 

1. Identify key terms used when discussing racial issues. 

2. Analyze how race is a social construct. 

3. Discuss and pose critical thinking questions about high-level readings.

This lesson plan focuses on: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.10, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.6.

Lesson Plan 2: Institutions of Racial Control

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: 

1. Analyze literary techniques in prose. 

2. Understand how institutions are a means of racialized control. 

3. Develop research and analytical skills to large data sets.

This lesson plan focuses on: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.10, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9.

Lesson Plan 3: Activism for Criminal Justice Reform

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: 

1. Analyze the effects of social justice movements. 

2. Engage in critical thinking and rhetorical analysis of writing. 

3. Develop research and presentation skills on important activism figures and organizations.

This lesson plan focuses on: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.10, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9.

Lesson plans created by Judy Zhang

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