Day 5

The Fire Next Time Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    The Fire THIS Time

    Kind of Activity:

    Long-term Project

    Objective:

    Students will be able to draw connections between historic and contemporary moments of social and political unrest and better understand the makings of uprisings

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7

    Structure:

    This assignment will require students to reflect on the book's title, The Fire Next Time, and consider what the Fire This Time looks like. Baldwin's book has been lauded as a cautionary work that foreshadowed many of the uprisings (often described as race riots) of the 1960s.

    Fire becomes a metaphor to describe a destructive chaos that will fall upon our...

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