Today's objectives:
By the end of today's lesson, students will have interacted with the new essential questions and be able to explain mental slavery. They will also make connections between (internalized) racism with mental slavery, understand that racial epithets have a complex history in America and exhibit sensitivity in decisions they make about reading the word aloud, and begin reading Kindred.
Agenda:
1) What does “mental slavery” mean?
• Students look at multiple texts on mental slavery (two short writings excerpted from the internet, two songs/lyrics, a brief section of a text on mental slavery, and a sticker slogan) and work in groups to come up with a definition of mental slavery. [15 min]
• Groups share out their definitions and we work towards a class definition of mental slavery [10 min]
• How does mental slavery relate to racism (interpersonal, institutional, and internalized)? [10 min]
2) The n-word and the power of language [10 min]
3) Begin reading Kindred
HW: Read through the middle of page 33.
