Collection: African-American Literature
This curriculum is for a full-year course in African-American Literature. The curriculum features some of the most talented and thoughtful writers in the African-American canon: Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, and more.
The curriculum is organized chronologically and was designed to highlight some of the important literary and cultural movements introduced by African-American authors: slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Literature, Black Arts Poetry, and more. The curriculum is deliberately diverse in its representation of gender, and it brings an intersectional approach to the study of literary characters.
In addition, the curriculum features literary texts from a wide range of literary genres: novels, memoirs, plays, and poems. The daily lesson plans equip students with the terminologies and techniques for analyzing texts written in those different genres. The lessons also explore how African-American writers experimented with and often transformed the conventions associated with each literary genre!
