Read “Ajarry” and “Georgia.”
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
“Ajarry”
In this first chapter, an omniscient third-person narrator describes how Ajarry was captured in West Africa and her journey through the Middle Passage to the southern United States. The narrator recounts how Ajarry was sold so many times that...
