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Teaching Excerpt: Black Boy

Excerpt: Black Boy

Richard Wright
pp. 16-21 from BLACK BOY by RICHARD WRIGHT. Copyright, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945 by Richard Wright; renewed (c) 1973 by Ellen Wright. Reprinted with permission of HarperCollins Publishers

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How do we view the actions of people who are in difficult circumstances?
STANDARDS:
RL.2 - Main Ideas, RL.3 - Characters & Plot, RL.6 - Point of View

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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