Day 2

The Hate U Give Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Understanding Systemic Racism

    Kind of Activity:

    Classwide Discussion

    Objective:

    Students will learn to define racism as power plus prejudice and to understand systemic racism.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7

    Structure:

    In Chapter Ten, Starr and her father talk about Tupac's lyrics, and Maverick makes Starr define THUG LIFE. He asks her what is the hate people are giving "little infants" in today's society. When she says racism, he makes her be more specific.

    There is more to racism than dislike of people of another race. Racism is power plus prejudice--which students can read about, individually, as a class, or in small...

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