Your task will be to join a team of fellow classmates (your group
will be chosen ahead of time by your teacher) whose goal will be to
recommend to the superintendent, the school board, the principal, and the
classroom teacher a list of works to be used in the newly-created African
American literature course. You will consider all of the following
genres:
- Slave narratives
- Biographies
- Nonfiction works
- Poetry
- Short Stories
- Novels
- Plays
In the course of your work, you and your team will complete the following:
- Create a list of fifteen works to be included in an African-American
literature anthology.
- Describe the importance of works you choose to include.
- Analyze works of African-American writers from a particular genre by
reading the works and writing a literary analysis for each work.
- Compose an overview/introduction to your final product.
- Discuss your work with your class in a group presentation.
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