Reading Pathfinder

11th Grade Unit on

Black Nationalism

Written by Amber N. Boyd

Unit Overview

Differentiation

 

 

Lesson 1: Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism

 

Assessment

 

Lesson 2: Malcolm X: "Ballot or the Bullet"

 

Lesson 3: Black Panther Party: "Why We Are Not Racist"

 

Assessment


Books found in the Vogel Library at Wartburg College number range: 305.896
Search IPAC and use following search terms: Black Nationalism, Black Panther Party


Helpful Reference Books:
322.42 Se 15 Seale, Bobby. Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. (L10.9)
This book is a 1960’s protest era classic. The book tells the story of how the Black Panther Party came into existence and the trials, setbacks, and hardships it endured. This book is an excellent primary source for student use, as it provides detailed accounts of the riots, the party platform, beliefs, conspiracies, and the much more. This book is great for teachers and students because it is written in language that they can understand and at the same time intelligently and effectively communicate the tone and seriousness of the time. I would encourage students to grab a dictionary if they are going to be reading on an independent level. Because of the vocabulary, the book gets four stars.


305.896 G199ZG Garvey, Amy Jacques. Garvey & Garveyism. (12.0)

This book tells the story of Marcus Garvey, a black Jamaican Zionist, who led the first Black Nationalist movement in history. This international movement was committed to political and social freedom for Black people across the world. The author, Garvey’s wife provides a detailed account of the struggles, setbacks, and successes that sparked the emergence of Black pride and the rise of great Black historical leaders in America and Africa. This book is a great resource for teachers and can be used as an instructional level text in a classroom. It provides excellent detail however, it is suggested that some discretion be used as the advanced readability level is taken into consideration. This book receives 3.5 stars.


364.1523 T46 Crowe, Chris. Getting away With Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case. (L10)

This book tells the true story of a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who is kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi in 1955. He made a comment to a white woman and three days later his body was found badly beaten beyond recognition in the Tallahatchie River. This book is a great resource for pictures and newspaper articles for a student research project. However, the graphic nature of some of the photographs may be a bit disturbing to some; this book gets 3.5 stars.


http://afgen.com/nationalism.html (L12.0)

This website is extremely helpful both teachers and students. Students should pay particularly close attention as it provides many resources, biographies, and journal articles that would be helpful for a research project. This website is great because it not only deals with Black Nationalism in America, but Black Internationalism.Teachers, this would be of great help to you if you need to do a quick review of the main ideas, people, and events that come together under the theme Black Nationalism. Teachers take heed of the readability in directing frustration level readers to this website. This website gets four stars for the readability.

http:www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_es_emmetttill.htm (10.7)
This website is extremely helpful for an abridged version of the horrific truth about Emmett Till. It provides the most significant facts without going into great detail, great for review and use as a professional resource. Although the website does a good job of summarizing, one of the more important criteria for a good website is absent: the author’s credentials. While I am aware of them because he happens to be the author of a previous book I have read, the audience is uninformed. This website gets three stars for the uninformed audience.

Malcolm X: "Ballot of the Bullet" Speech

http://www.pbs.org/greratspeeches/timeline/m_x_sl.html Group 1 (L6.6)
http://www.africawithin.com/malcolm/malcolm_speaks.htm Group 2 (L7.1)
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/458.html Group 3 (8.9)

In this speech, Malcolm X pinpoints what he believes to be the problem in Black America. This speech is the text for Lesson 2.It is provided in 3 different versions to satisfy the three differrent reading levels in a classroom.

 

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