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Black History Month lectures for Microsoft Word
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” Handout
A detailed analysis of James Baldwin’s short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” including the following: its plot; its characters; its themes; its symbolism, particularly of the names; the recognition and reversal which occur at its end; point of view; and music symbolism. My handout, which has blanks that your students can fill in, is suitable for a homework assignment or as an in-class activity. You may also want to incorporate some information in your own lecture notes or other class activities. An an
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" Handout
An analysis of Ralph Ellison’s short story “Battle Royal,” a chapter from his novel Invisible Man, including its themes, plot, climax, recognition, reversal, protagonists, antagonists, symbolism, and point of view. Some teachers overlook the fact that one powerful way Ellison shows that in the American South of the 1930s and 1940s African Americans were “invisible” (that is, when whites looked at them they did not see human beings but a stereotype) is by never giving the protagonist of his nove
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” Handout
The seventeen-year-old “King” Dave slays the Goliath of Southern racism in Wright’s brilliant short story, whose paradoxical title—How can “a man” be “almost a man”?—will jump out at your perceptive students.
My handout provides a detailed analysis of the story’s structure (including inciting moment, climax, denouement, reversal, and recognition); its protagonist and antagonists; its themes, setting, and point of view; and its irony, paradox, and name symbolism.
This seven-page part of the h
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” Handout
Detailed analysis of the theme, structure, and stylistic aspects of Brooks’s “We Real Cool.” The handout also contains an essay explicating the poem. This nine-paragraph essay may be used as a model in explicating any poem. The first paragraph of the essay has a lead-in sentence (about Brooks), a thesis sentence, and a statement of procedure. Next there is a paragraph discussing the theme of her poem. Then one on its structure, including a summary of “We Real Cool.” Succeeding body paragra
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
African Americans After Reconstruction
Lecture notes detailing the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the African American community after Reconstruction ended. Covering Esteban, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, York, The Bonga Family of Minnesota, James Beckwourth, Mifflin Gibbs, Biddy Mason, Pio Pico, Isom Dart, Cherokee Bill, Ben Hodges, Deadwood Dick, Bill Pickett, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, the Southern Alliance, the Colored Farmers Alliance, African American Disenfranchisement, the Populist Party, Debt Peonage, Booker T. Washing
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World War Two
Lecture notes detailing the United States role in World War Two. Covering the Rise of the New Powers, Franklin Roosevelt, Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Fascist regimes, Weimar Republic, The New Deal’s Failure, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Josef Stalin, Appeasement, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Wendell Willkie, the Eastern Front, The Japanese Empire, Douglass MacArthur, campaign and strategy of total war, Artic convoys, Bombing Raids, the Enigma Code, the Triton Co
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Claude McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer” in Teaching the Shakespearean Sonnet Handout
In introducing the Shakespearean sonnet, a teacher typically follows the natural inclination of using one by the Bard himself. Considering vocabulary, theme, and style, I have found that a Shakespearean (sometimes called English) sonnet by a modern poet is preferable.
This handout shows how I use a Shakespearean sonnet by Claude McKay, a major poet of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, to introduce this genre to my students. The themes of “The Harlem Dancer” immediately seize their attention since
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reconstruction
Lecture notes detailing Reconstruction. Covering the social changes in the Slave States, War Time Reconstruction, the Freedmen, the Sea Islands, the Freedmen's Bureau, Lincoln's 10%, the Wade-Davis Bill, the Wade-Davis Manifesto, Andrew Johnson, The Bloody Shirt, Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Republican Reconstruction, the Tenure of Office Act, the Redeemers, Free State Adventurers (Carpet Baggers), Scalawags, Slavocrats, African American Political Gains, Robert Smalls, African American R
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The US Civil War: The Home front
Lecture notes detailing the Homefront during the United States Civil war. Covering the Confederate Homefront, Confederate Conscription Act, the New York City Draft Riot, Domestic Economics, Domestic Politics, Confederate Inflation and Confederate Refugees, the Republican Party Plan, the Homestead Act of 1862 , the Morrill Land Grant Act, the Pacific Rail Road Act of 1862, African Americans during the Civil War, William Sherman, African American Soldiers, Arming Slaves in the Confederate States,
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Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Sadie and Maud” Handout
A detailed analysis of Brooks’s “Sadie and Maud,” a poem which protests against the stereotyping of African-American women. Much of the handout is an explication essay, in which blanks have been left for students to provide answers to practical exercises dealing with explicating poems. For instance, they will find examples of symbolism, alliteration, metaphors, and rhyme schemes in “Sadie and Maud,” as well as examine its themes, structure, and metrics. The purpose of these exercises is to re
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” Handout
A detailed analysis of the structure, characters, themes, imagery, and symbolism of Hayden’s most popular poem, “Those Winter Sundays.” In addition, the handout provides activities on the metrical and sound devices used in the poem, including hand-on work with scansion, alliteration, consonance, and assonance.
Through these exercises your students should come away with an awareness of how the smallest aspect of this textured poem is important. Doing the activities in this handout alone or i
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
African Americans in the Early 20th century
Lecture notes detailing the experience of the African American Community during the early twentieth century. Covering the legal doctrine of Doctrine of Separate but Equal, the Impact of Jim Crow Restrictions, Lynchings, Debt Bondage, sharecroppers, Hampton Institute, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Agricultural Sciences and Manual Arts, Up from Slavery, George Washington Carver, Elijah McCoy, Jan Matzeliger, Garrett Morgan, Granville T. Woods, Mary Elizabeth Church Terrell, Ida B. Well
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Maya Angelou's "Sister Monroe" Handout
An analysis of Maya Angelou’s hilarious short story “Sister Monroe.” This handout begins with a discussion of what typically makes people laugh. Five characteristics of humor are listed and applied to Angelou’s story. A distinction is then made between physical humor and intellectual humor; again the use if these two types are examined in “Sister Monroe.” This handout aims to provide your students with a greater understanding of what humor is and of how brilliantly Angelou uses humor in her
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Turbulent 1850's
Lecture notes detailing the turbulence of the 1850s in the United States. Covering the Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Personal Liberty Laws, the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, the Lecompton Constitution and The impending crisis of the South. Covering events such as the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Burns Case the Election of 1852, the founding of the Republican Party, the Election of 1856, the Dred Scott Case, the Lincoln Douglass Debates and John
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Civil Rights Cases of the 19th Century
Lecture notes detailing the Civil Rights Cases of the 19th Century. Covering the expansion of Civil Rights, The Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause, Joseph Campbell, Jesse McKinney, John Marshall Harlan, Civil Rights cases of 1883, Murray Stanley, Bird Gee, the Topeka Case, Yick Wo vs Hopkins, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Gens Du Couleur Creoles, the One Drop Rule Covering events such as the Slaughterhouse Case of 1873, Cruikshank vs. United States, Easter of 1873, the passage o
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Slavery: Slave Resistance
Lecture notes detailing the resistance methods employed by slaves. Covering the Black Church, withholding labor, slave punishments, escape and the Underground Railroad. Concluding with Harriet Tubman.
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The US Civil War: Emancipation
Lecture notes detailing Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamations. Covering the Legal Position of Slavery, the Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, 19th Century Racism, Recolonization, Robert Purvis, Slaves and Emancipation, Emancipation as a War aim, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Congressional Emancipation and Presidential Emancipation, . Covering events such as the Ill-a-Vache Disaster and the Embargo Act. Concluding with the international effect of the Emancipation Proclamations.
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SCIPIO AFRICANUS JONES, SLAVE TO CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
Scipio Africanus Jones was born a slave, but became a lawyer who led a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but he did not get to go, which would have made him the first African American lawyer at the highest court. His case did bring a change to the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, giving African Americans more rights. The lessons about Scipio are written on three levels, from upper elementary through high school. The teacher should look at all levels to see which is appropriate.
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Slavery: Slave Rebellions and Recolonization
Lecture notes detailing Slave Rebellions and Recolonization. Covering Jackson's war in Florida, the Stono Rebellion, Denmary Vessey's Rebellion, Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion, the legacy of Nat Turner's Rebellion and Paul Cuffe. Covering events such as The Second Seminole War and Nat Turner's Rebellion. Concluding with the American Colonization Society.
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Slavery in the American Colonies
Lecture Notes on the genesis of Chattel Slavery in the English colonies along the Atlantic Coast. With a particular look at Virginia whose colonial legislature passed a series of statutes that defined the social standing of Africans and Europeans. Covering the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, the Early Colonial Black Codes, the hardening of the Black Codes during the Cromwell's Protectorate (Military Dictatorship) and the Stuart Restoration, the later Colonial Slave Code Laws in Virginia
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Slavery: Frederick Douglass
Lecture notes detailing the life and career of Frederick Douglass. Covering Frederick's Douglass' early public career, Douglass' tenure in Britain, Douglass' professional troubles, the US Civil War, Douglass' later career. Covering events such as Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery and Douglass' Second Marriage. Concluding with Douglass's Enduring Legacy.
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Factors that led to the fall of Ghana Empire
Here are the numerous factors behind the downward slide - and eventual collapse of the ancient Ghana Empire.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The US Civil War: The Election of 1860
Lecture notes detailing the Election of 1860. Covering the events preceding the Election of 1860, the Charleston Convention, the Republican Party Platform of 1860, John C. Breckenridge , Stephen Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and John Bell. Covering events such as the Baltimore Convention and the the Election of 1860. Concluding with the 1860 election results.
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Slavery: The Slave Master
Lecture notes detailing American Chattel slavery Covering Slavery as the American Dream, the Slave Master Lifestyle, Slave Master Paternalism, The Necessary Evil Argument, Slavery's Barbarity and Slave Illiteracy. Covering events such as the linking of Slave Labor based agriculture and American Capitalism. Concluding with the how the Slave Master's exploitation of slaves contradicted Paternalism.
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