Phillis Wheatley: Poems Lesson Plan

Missionaries and Slavery (Day 2)

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the ways that slavery and colonialism were foundational to much of what we know as global history

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4

Structure:

Each group of students should present the results of their research from the previous day's activity, in whatever form it has taken. Ask students to share their research sources and the reasons they chose to present the research in this form.

When all the groups have presented, settle in for a substantive discussion. Many of them, in their research, probably found that there...