This page includes the student reader for the unit, as well as editable resources from the teacher manual: writing tasks, charts for discussion, forms and graphic organizers. All resources can be downloaded for implementation with students.

Table of Contents

Text Audio

A Rough Handshake by Alberto Alvaro Ríos

(coming soon)

Selected chapters from Bone Black by bell hooks

 

Excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright

 

Writing Tasks

Title: S-2: Studying Ríos: Mapping the Story

Session 2

PDF

Title: S-4: Studying Ríos: The Most Significant Line

Session 4

PDF

Title: S-5: Writing Like Ríos

Session 5

PDF

Title: S-11: Studying hooks: Creating a Character List

Session 11

PDF

Title: S-13: Studying hooks: Summarizing the Work

Session 13

PDF

Title: S-14: Interpreting hooks

Session 14

PDF

Title: S-18: Interpreting hooks and Wright

Session 18

PDF

Title: S-23: Building Scenes

Session 23

PDF

Title: S-25: Little Stories Writing Project

Session 25

PDF

Charts for Discussion

Title: S-2: Small-Group Work: Problems and Solutions

Session 2

Title: S-15: During Interpretive Discussions….

Session 15

Forms and Graphic Organizers

Title: S-4: Criteria for a Good Discussion

Session 4

PDF

Title: S-23: hooks and Wright: Selected Scenes

Session 23

PDF
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