P01_L03_KL4b

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

(= short for: we are learning today)

WALT: 

• understand opinion pieces on current issues
• the art of paraphrasing
• grammar recap: simple present & present continuous

Programme:

• grammar recap: future tenses -> ex. 20
• Literature project: The Slave Trade & its aftermath

Literature Project:

Racism & Slavery in Literature

Objectives

• I have a broad overview of American (Black) history
  
• I can recognize how the structures of racism come into effect in a chosen work of American literature 
  
• I can explain my findings in a class presentation 
  
• I can recognize the effects of structural racism in today’s society 
  

Reading

Read the handout & answer the questions on the last page.

Leave out question 6!

Post slavery

1876-1964: The Jim Crow laws: a period of racism and oppression.

1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: ''seperate but equal''.