ESOL Black Heritage Lesson Plans

Black Heritage Project Lesson Plans* for ESOL Intermediate & Advanced

Please do not use these assignments in courses other than ESOL Intermediate & Advanced

Created by Linda Cocchiola, Ed.D., CT State Community College Capital

Introduction

Ann Plato was a member of the Talcott Street Church (Hartford’s first Black church), a teacher at the second school created for Black children, and one of the first African American writers to publish a book of essays and poems (1841, Hartford). This assignment for Intermediate and Advanced ESOL develops students’ understanding of critical and global perspectives and asks the essential question, what can we infer about writers and their time (context) from the details in a text that provide evidence for the writer’s main ideas?

Curriculum Plans

·     ESOL Intermediate

·     ESOL Advanced

·     Language and the Amistad Activity

*Lesson plan developed as part of the HHP’s Black Heritage Project, paid for by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.