Common Reading Initiative Teacher Resources 

Common Reading Initiative Teacher Resources

Here below are Teacher Resources for the Common Reading Initiative. Please click on the links for the PDF documents, thank you.

Ideas for In-Class Exercises and Research Projects

Questions_Discussion Prompts

Lesson Plan: A Poetry re-write

Wheatley and the Revolutionary Era | Lesson Plan

Wheatley and Respectability | Lesson Plan

Wheatley and Respectability | Lesson Plan – Handout

These teaching resources were compiled by members of the 2021 SEA Program African American Panel Stream sub-committee:

Tara Bynum, University of Iowa, tara-bynum@uiowa.edu
Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin, brigitte.fielder@gmail.com
Cassander L. Smith, University of Alabama, clsmith17@ua.edu

Members of the committee compiled the resources in consultation with Professor Honorée Jeffers, University of Oklahoma, honoree@honoreejeffers.com

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