Toni Morrison Lesson Plans

1. Clearinghouse on Reading Lesson Plans
Sula/Song of Solomon/Tar Baby by Toni Morrison from: Teaching Literature by Women Authors Brief Description Students answer assigned questions as a group, write individual essays, complete a research project, and complete a writing project. Objective To discuss the individual and cumulative effects of novels dealing with complex social issues; t...

2. The Givens Foundation: K-12 Curricula: Curriculum Index
Read Comments by Educators Add Your Comments Title: Harlem Renaissance and Toni Morrison's Jazz Educator: Mary Skoy Educator n.a., MN Affiliation: Overview: Harlem Renaissance and Toni Morrison's Jazz is a unit designed to make the Harlem Renaissance come alive for students through activities that include watching a video, doing historical research, reading parts or all of a novel, and...

3. Facing the Ghosts of Our Past
...Extension Activities: 1. Students can read or see "Beloved" and write a book review about the novel. (NOTE: The film is rated "R"; similarly, the novel is not for young readers.) 2. Students can write book or film reviews and publish them in the school newspaper. 3. Students can read other books by Toni Morrison ("The Bluest Eye," "Sula," "Song of Solomon," "Tar Baby," "Jazz," and "Paradise") and compare the issues discussed in these books to those presented in "Beloved." 4. Students can study some of the historical events that occurred at the same time in which "Beloved" is set (general events, such as sla...

4. Motherhood: Biological Asset or Social Liability?
...s Institute Home Motherhood: Biological Asset or Social Liability? by Jessica Zelenski Contents of Curriculum Unit 02.06.03: Narrative Motherhood Infanticide Introduction to Unit Mini Unit I The Joy Luck Club Mini Unit II Jasmine by Bharati Mukherejee Activities for Jasmine Mini Unit III Beloved by Toni Morrison Notes Student Reading List Teacher's Reading List To Guide Entry Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women. ____Lorraine Hansberry I am an English teacher at James Hillhouse High School in New Haven. Over 90% of Hillhouse's population is black. Our students hail from all...

5. She's All Over the Map
...g strength " Nelly Sachs (1966) " who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity " Nadine Gordimer (1991) " who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality " Toni Morrison (1993) for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality " Wislawa Szymborska (1996) " for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of...

6. Teaching English Language Arts: MusicAsaBridge
...s Harper's moment of pain when she finds herself tired of negotiating a space for herself. She seats on Tilly and Penpen's porch steps and she does not move for hours because she is burdened by her experiences and feels rejected, unwanted and powerless. Terri's Interpretation Novel: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. Penguin Books: New York, (1970). Songs: "Beautiful," Christina Aguillara "Seven," Norah Jones "No Woman. No Cry," Bob Marley In my analysis, I connected the theme of perceived beauty in the novel to the popular song, Beautiful'. The Bluest Eye is about two African-American sisters, Freida and Claud...

7. Creating Multimedia Timelines
...same time throughout the world during medieval times. ? Create a timeline that traces the roots of the Scientific Revolution. (For example, Greek Rationalism; Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sciences; Renaissance Humanism; and new knowledge from global exploration.) ? Create a timeline that tracks tectonic plate motions in the last 200 years along the Ring of Fire through major geologic events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. For High School Students: ? Create a timeline tracking the discoveries that led up to the Human Genome Project. ? Create a timeline tracing the inventions and discoveries of...

8. Ambassadors of Art
...States? j. According to the article, what is the historical relationship between France and the United States? k. What will take place at the Louvre between June 14 and September 18, 2006? l. According to the article, which other French art museums are involved in this cultural exchange? m. Who is Toni Morrison, and what role does she play in the upcoming events at the Louvre? 3. The cultural exchange between the Louvre and United States will offer museum-goers, on both sides of the Atlantic, the chance to become familiar with artwork they may not have otherwise. Ask students to imagine that they have been...

9. Mom, Apple Pie, and the American Way
...uzsa_Polgar (Zsuzsa Polgar) http://www.answers.com/topic/j-k-rowling (J. K. Rowling) http://search.eb.com/women/article-9396714 (Megawati Sukarnoputri) http://search.eb.com/women/article-9011270 (Aung San Suu Kyi) http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/southeast/prac/LaDonna%205th/beloved-1.html (Toni Morrison) http://search.eb.com/women/article-9071950 (Margaret Thatcher) First Lady Famous Photos of Jacqueline Kennedy: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/images/040227_kennedy.jpghttp:// mcadams.posc.mu.edu/family1.gif http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/fred.yaniga/LPS-JFK/lesson6.html ht...

10. Faulkner's
...s and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Macbeth V.v. Introduction: A Tale Told by an Idiot Portrait of William In Carolyn Denard's essay "The Long, High Gaze: The Mythical Faulkner by Consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner," she notes that Carl Van Faulkner often gave Vechten. Courtesy of voice to the 'discredited' within the South - the alienated, the American insane, the idiosyncratic - Ike, Benjy, Darl. These nationally and Memory at the locally discredited get Faulkner's gaze He does not simpl...