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Native Son by Richard Wright: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Richard Wright's Native Son. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Black Boy by Richard Wright: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature instructional activity, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Richard Wright's Black Boy. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Black Boy By Richard Wright
Eleventh graders create a flow chart of the events most influential in Wright's life. They produce a talk show where students discuss autobiographies with other students. Websites imbedded in this plan are used to research Richard Wright.
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Native Son Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Richard Wright's Native Son. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Black Boy Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Richard Wright's Black Boy. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Writing About Race
Fourth graders explore racial discrimination focusing on Jim Crow laws. They read an excerpt from Richard Wright's autobiography and discuss how viewing the subject from the his point of view affects their opinions.
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Tell About South II: Poets and Prophets
Students explore the life of Richard Wright. They create a Power Point presentation to showcase Wright's journey from Mississippi to Memphis, Chicago, New York, and France and how he was an example of an African-American who moved north....
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Native Son
In this Native Son worksheet, students read a one page passage from the book and then explain how the extract related to To Kill a Mockingbird. Students answer in essay form.
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Coming of Age Readings: Experiences in Korea and by Asians in America
Bring multi-cultural experiences and literature into your language arts class with this lesson. Here, young readers explore the points of view of first and second-generation Asian immigrants with a list of various fiction and nonfiction...
Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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The Stranger Redeemed: A Portrait of a Black Poet
Read and analyze poems by African-American authors. Using the text, they identify the various patterns, subjects, language and dialects used. Then team up to compare and contrast the various authors and define new vocabulary. The lesson...
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Over in the Meadow
Students discover how to locate books on meadow and pond animals and research them. Students discover how to locate fiction/story books about the animals mentioned in the counting book read. Students discover how to locate by author,...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.10
Assess whether your class members can comprehend complex informational text with a series of drills based on selections from Emerson, Thoreau, and G.K. Chesterton. The exercises could also be used for group work or a full-class discussion.
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Language Arts, Social Studies, African Americans, The Blues, To Kill A Mockingbird
African American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. To help students understand...
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Uncommon Heroes of Today
Students create a photo-biography of someone they consider a real life hero. In this character sketch activity, students define a hero and identify heroic characteristics in short stories. Students use descriptive words to write about...
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Japanese Haiku and the American Experience
Twelfth graders research the history to Haiku Poetry. They read classical haiku to comprehend their special sensibility and form. Students encounter the Buddhist philosophical background of this poetry and its roots. They write original...
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Where I Am From
Students study selected poetry to gain an understanding of influences on values and personal identity. They explore language terms such as personification, imagery metaphors and allusion. After reading a poem and discussing it,...
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Carson McCullers: Loneliness and Frustrated Love
Pupils examine the themes of loneliness and frustrated love in the work of Carson McCullers. In this theme analysis lesson, students complete a comparison of patterns in the novels of McCullers as a part of a theme analysis.
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Tutors & Readers Theater
Students complete literacy service learning projects. In this literacy lesson, older students work with younger students to tutor them in reading and writing. They help prepare a Readers Theater for the younger students.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Native Son by Richard Wright
This is an online study guide for the novel Native Son by Richard Wright including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Richard Wright
Author Richard Wright is presented in this biography which draws upon his brutal honesty in describing life in the racially segregated south. See "Richard Wright Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Richard Wright Lesson Plans
What do you know about the life and work of the author Richard Wright? Students and teachers will benefit from the information provided through the links in this resource.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Richard Wright, a black boy living in the Jim Crow South, travels north in hopes of escaping the violence and prejudice that rules his childhood. Selected (8) reading passages (grades7-12) to pair with "Black Boy" by Richard Wright....
PBS
Pbs: The American Novel: Literary Timeline: Authors: Richard Wright
Brief biography of American author Richard Wright.
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