Grace Abounding Unit 3 Teacher Kit

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About the Teacher Resource Kits

For each of the four major literary units in Grace Abounding there is a corresponding Teacher Resource Kit, which includes Lesson Plans, Reading Check Tests, Vocabulary Tests, and answer keys. Please find the forementioned sections in the bookmark tab of your Teacher Resource Kit PDF.

Lesson Plans

With the lesson plans, teachers can target major language arts objectives while giving students exposure to important African-American writers, thinkers, and activists.

Each lesson also contains at least one Student Handout and often two or more. The expectation is that teachers will make photocopies for all students. Please note that these are not designed to be used as assessments but rather as instruction tools.

There is a lesson plan for every literary selection in Grace Abounding; these lessons can provide a strong foundation for a language arts curriculum, particularly in grades 5–9. A lesson plan is based on its corresponding literary selection but it is not necessarily directly related to it.

Reading Check Tests

All reading checks contain three parts: one page of basic recalling questions, one page of interpreting questions, and a short assessment essay.

Vocabulary Tests

Many selections in Grace Abounding contain Vocabulary in Place boxes, the majority of which contain words that every student should learn. The selections are useful for exposing the students to essential vocabulary, and the tests can be used to help solidify it as practical knowledge.

There are vocabulary tests for every selection in Grace Abounding that contains vocabulary glosses.

Unit 3 Lessons

1. from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
   Historical Research and Bibliographies
2. “The Struggle for an Education”
   Parallelism
3. “Good Manners”
   Internet Searches
4. “Southern Horrors” and A Red Record
   Reading Journalism
5. from The Souls of Black Folk
   Thesis Development
6. Address to the Country
   Speech Writing
7. Telegram to the Disarmament Conference
   Logic in Persuasion
8. Preface to The New Negro
   Prefixes and Etymology in Vocabulary
9. “The Negro Digs Up His Past”
   Collecting the Personal Past
10. The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
    Sound Effects in Poetry
11. The Poems of Fenton Johnson and Anne Spencer
    The Uses of Poetic Irony
12. “I Sit and Sew” and “The Heart of a Woman”
    Theme, Tone, and Imagery
13. The Poems of Claude McKay
    The Catalog as a Literary Device
14. The Poems of Langston Hughes
    How Metaphors Work
15. “Heritage”
    Form and Meaning in Poetry
16. The Poems of Countee Cullen
    Reading Poetry
    Poetic Compression
17. The Poems of Jean Toomer, Helene Johnson, Sterling Brown, and Arna Bontemps
    Using Recitation
18. “The Bouquet”
    Point of View and Narration