Lesson Overview
This lesson explores how Toni Morrison and hip-hop artists use storytelling techniques and cultural references to depict life experiences and challenges.
Essential Question
How do Toni Morrison and hip-hop artists use storytelling and cultural references to depict life experiences and challenges?
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8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Higher Education
Teacher will need to prepare Toni Morrison excerpts/quotes and song lyrics for student use.
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- ELA.AOR.1 Evaluate and critique key literary elements that enhance and deepen meaning within and across texts.
- ELA.AOR.2 Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.
- ELA.AOR.2 Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.
- ELA.AOR.2 Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.
- ELA.AOR.2 Evaluate and critique the development of themes and central ideas within and across texts.
- 8.5.CX Analyze the correlation between the Modern Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina and the U.S.
- This indicator was designed to foster inquiry into the role of South Carolina in the Modern Civil Rights Movement, to include the influence of court cases such as Briggs v. Elliot and Flemming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas. This indicator was also developed to promote inquiry into the relationship between national leadership, protests, and events and South Carolina leadership, protests and events, such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre.
- 8.5.CC Analyze the continuities and changes in South Carolina's identity resulting from the civic participation of different individuals and groups of South Carolinians.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into civic engagement, such as military service, public demonstrations, and political activism, to shape the identity of modern South Carolina. This indicator was also written to encourage inquiry into South Carolinians' use of the court system and legislation to affect South Carolina's post World War II identity.
- 8.5.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives on the cultural changes in South Carolina and the U.S.
- USHC.5.CX Contextualize domestic economic development and American national identity within global politics.
- This indicator was designed to support inquiry into the relationship between Cold War and post-9/11 eras on the shaping of the American identity. This indicator also promotes inquiry into the impact of social and economic developments since the Election of 1980 on the American identity.
- USHC.5.CC Evaluate continuities and changes during the Civil Rights Movement and other subsequent movements for equal rights.
- This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into thematic continuities and changes into how marginalized groups sought and won legal rights. Inquiry into the leadership, methods, and outcomes of modern equal rights movements are supported by this indicator.
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