How It Feels To Be Colored Me

Here you bear witness to my first ever "Lesson Plan" though I don't know if you can call it that because I've never actually done one before...

I've been working with a 9th grade student this summer on a "Unit" however, similar to this one, and the discussions have been amazing. So far we've talked about Zora Neale-Hurston's "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" and Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue." Both offer eye-opening dialogues and expressions of multicultural experiences of identity and race in America. It is so easy to think of innumerable extensions and versions of any one lesson, but here is an entry into the topic, inclusive of some of my recent learnings of ISTE and SAMR technology standards in teaching.