Day 3

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read stories 7-9.

Content Summary for Teachers

Medallion

Yohannes arrives in L.A. on a scholarship to study engineering. He befriends a taxi driver, Bobby, who offers to help him earn money to support himself. Bobby takes advantage of Yohannes’ naive idealism. When Yohannes starts to suspect what’s happening, he surrenders himself to the situation.

Sinkholes

A young immigrant to Florida in the mid-1970s is the only Black student in the classroom during a lesson about Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The teacher has the class write slurs on the board and the boy refuses to participate.

The Case of the Missing Prime Minister

This story covers the disappearance of a famously brutal political...

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