A Small Place Lesson Plan

Systemic racism: facts and discussion

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Understanding Racism in A Small Place

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4

Structure:

Kincaid writes that Antiguans can be at once "eternal innocents, or artists who have not yet found eminence in a world too stupid to understand, or lunatics who have made their own lunatic asylum, or an exquisite combination of all three." She theorizes that this combination is the only way Antiguans could tolerate the corruption, the cognitive dissonance, the...