In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.

In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.

"A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.

"A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.

Thematically-based classroom resources drawn from the six-part PBS series <i>Shakespeare Uncovered</i>.

Thematically-based classroom resources drawn from the six-part PBS series <i>Shakespeare Uncovered</i>.

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 12 "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." -Romeo and Juliet (5.3.320) Though the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet is a perennial favorite, the world around the play has changed in the four centuries since it was first performed. Shifting attitudes about taboo love and marriage, gender roles, and even guns and street violence inform the way we read or see the play today.

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

Abolish the hearty handshake and learn to bow down.

tedtalk, vocabulary

tedtalk, vocabulary

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words - not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long - and controversial - history in U.S. schools.

Blues Classroom Addresses the following themes in the National Curriculum Standards for Follow up this poem by listening to Hughes recite his poem "One Way Ticket." After listening, discuss what this poem suggests about conditions in the South. What solution is offered for the problems that blacks must deal with in the South?

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Happy endings are famously rare in literature. We turn to great books for emotional and ethical complexity, and broad-scale resolution cheats our sense of what real life is like.

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