Grace Abounding Unit 1 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 1 Lessons

1. “The Origin of African Proverbial Wisdom”
   Subject-Verb Pairs (Complete Sentences)
   Independent and Dependent Clauses
2. “All Stories are Anansi’s”
   Tense Types
3. “How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?”
   Punctuation
4. “The White Man and the Snake”
   Sentence Fragments
5. “Tug of War”
   Personal Pronouns
6. “Talk”
   Clauses and Phrases
7. Great Hymn to the Aten
   Independent and Dependent Clauses
8. from Sunjata
   Types of Sentences
9. from The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
   Avoiding the Passive Voice