Lesson Plan
“Audiences love the themes and historical resonance of both the book and film— especially educators looking for engaging lesson plan materials exploring language arts, literature, ethnic studies, Black history, gender studies, football, and American history.”
Engage your classroom with a full unit lesson plan for the documentary film and book, suitable for high school and college educators (and younger audiences with modification).
The ebook includes worksheets, activities, and a final project designed by professional educators with National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA) Standards for the English Language Arts in mind.
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Guiding Questions:
1. Our life’s journey can be seen as a series of events based on luck/fate, natural talent, or hard work. How do these factors create one’s path and identity?
2. What is our personal responsibility to our community and to people outside of our own communities? How does helping others succeed benefit everyone?
3. What is the relationship between our past and our present? What is your identity and how is it wrapped up in the generations that came before yours?
4. How do we properly cite evidence from a nonfiction text to analyze perspective?
Enduring Understandings:
1. The relationship between the present and the past.
2. The significance of the desegregation of college and professional football as it relates to the Jim Crow of the South in the 1950s and 60s.
3. The relationship between the Civil Rights Act(s), activism of the 60s, and current social issues.
4. Journey is both literal and metaphorical in understanding narrative.
5. Exploration of storytelling vehicles: oral, audio recording, film, and writing.