Black+Boy


 * Lesson Plans **

[]# This page provides an entire lesson plan about __Black Boy__, including the worksheets referenced in the plan. http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t3prod/larsonwq1.html An example of a teacher's project involving __Black Boy__ and Jim Crow laws. Allows the student to take a firsthand perspective of racial segregation and apply it in a project.
 * Discussion/Worksheets/Activities**

[] This site includes discussion questions that can be used to spark discussions and feelings about the reading. This would be useful for small group discussions and reflections.

[] This page describes an activity that can be done with middle and high-school aged students. Students will analyze the character of young Richard Wright from their own perspective and apply his feelings to their experiences.

[] This site includes the vocabulary words from __Black Boy,__ as well as the definitons. This would be an excellent resource to use when beginning the novel as an introduction to the text.

[] This page gives several in-depth discusses questions that would be appropriate for junior and senior level high school students regarding __Black Boy.__ These discussion questions require thinking on different levels and connecting the literature to works by other African American authors.

[] This page provides an in-depth set of questions that relate to __Black Boy__ and the social context in which it was written. This would be useful for educating students with a holistic lesson regarding Richard Wright's childhood and the social values that existed in the early 1900's.

**Examples for Projects** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKg6UPHlpwI&feature=related A dramatization of __Black Boy__. Can be used as an example for a project involving making a dramatization for the novel.

http://webquest.org/index.php This website makes it easy for students to make interactive projects online. An example of a project involving Richard Wright's __Black Boy__ is to make an interactive Webquest in which the participant must survive the every day life of a black person living in the era of Jim Crow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSTKTm0pYQ&NR=1 A video of a rap about __Black Boy__. Can be used as an example for a project involving making a music video to Richard Wright's __Black Boy__.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YHOqpME2s&feature=related A video of a commercial made for __Black Boy.__ Can be used as an example for a project involving making a commercial for the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TvHYgKQ8M&feature=related An example of a short but powerful project that can be used as an example for projects in which students take their favorite quote from the book and make it artistic, whether through a video, song, painting, poem, or other type of artwork.


 * Study Guides **

[] This site contains a study guide, including character descriptions, chapter summaries, "Topic Tracking", and other ways that students can review the text.

[] Contains an in-depth study guide that provides character descriptions, analyses, and chapter summaries.


 * Activity Starters **

[] This page provides Haikus written by authors including Richard Wright. These Haiku poems can be used to related Richard Wright's writings and conveyed feelings to the text.

**Related Studies

[|http://home.gwu.edu/~cuff/wright/bibliogr/wr_bib.html]** A brief biography on Richard Wright, including his works and the works that have been written on Richard Wright.

[] (Scroll down to Week 3) "Living With Jim Crowe", this site provides discussion questions regarding living in a segregated era in the shoes of a minority.

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm Examples of actual Jim Crow laws that were applied during the time period of __Black Boy.__

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/r_wright.htm A collection of Richard Wright's Poetry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdM-fueKkY A short video that compiles information about Richard Wright's time, the relationship between black and white people, and peoples' reactions to his novel "The Native Son".