The New Jim Crow Lesson Plan

Preparing to Read The New Jim Crow

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will make a plan for success for the unit.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

Structure:

This activity could be completed before students do any reading of the text.

To begin the activity, have students complete a KWL. Organize students into pairs to do this activity. First, have students take a piece of paper and write two lines on it to create three columns of equal length. At the top of each column, students should write a K, then a W, then an L. Then, have students write everything they think they know about prisons and the criminal justice system. They should write...