EDU 6133- Diversity in America
Lesson Plan- The African American Experience Prior to the Civil War
Grade 9 EALR 5. Social Studies Skills – The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, form, and evaluate positions through the processes of reading, writing, and communicating.
GLE (component) 5.1 – Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions.
I used evidence from a chapter in After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle to address the conditions of African Americans in America during slavery and just after the Civil War in my lesson plan. My lesson plan includes a testimony about the conditions of slavery that is contrary to popular understanding. This is to bring out the environmental effects and conditions that will affect a testimony’s validity and objectivity. The discussion about this testimony and others will lead to a period of direct instruction were the conditions of slavery and its effect on human beings will be established.
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