ALEX Learning Activity Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2015] (10) 2 :

2 ) Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. [RL.9-10.2]

[ELA2015] (10) 6 :

6 ) Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of early American literature to 1900, drawing on a wide reading of American literature. [RL.9-10.6] (Alabama)

In this learning activity, students will read excerpts of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon and complete graphic organizers. Students will analyze the text through the lens of American Identity and show comprehension of the text and the author's purpose through their writing. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.