A Raisin in the Sun - Complete Unit - No-Prep
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This complete no-prep teaching unit for Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play, A Raisin in the Sun includes introduction activities, reading and discussion questions, lessons, creative activities, and assessments--everything you need to teach high school ELA students this fabulous play, A Raisin in the Sun.
A wonderful unit to for February, Black History Month!
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN-Comprehensive Bundle of Activities and Assessments
Drama presents incredible opportunities for students to examine and learn about plot, characterization, and symbolism. Lorraine’s Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, full of universal themes, challenges kids’ perspectives of poverty, racism, family, gender roles, and so much more.
INTRODUCTION to the playwright and the setting:
- author background
- article about her family’s struggle with housing discrimination
- annotation activity for Langston Hughes’s “Harlem”
- activity addressing the author’s purpose for writing the play
ALSO, for an engaging and fun introduction activity:
The Character Compatibility Quiz introduces students to characters and themes.
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COMPREHENSION AND ANALYSIS QUESTIONS divided by Act and Scene.
- Act 1 includes 49 questions
- Act 2, 78 questions
- Act 3, 47 questions
- Many questions include text from the play for student analysis, and others require students to provide illustrative text to support their answers
- Some packets include graphic organizers
- Questions address plot, character, symbolism, diction, and motivation
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ENGAGING ACTIVITIES FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT:
The Character’s Cell Phone
- Students choose options for apps on the character’s cell phone under these categories:
- Entertainment (Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube)
- Social connections (Facebook, Instagram, and match.com)
- Shopping on Amazon
- Legitimate news
- Self-indulgence (selfies, bitmoji, ringtones, games)
- Instructions guide them to discuss their choices, discuss how the characters would use the apps, and demonstrate an understanding of Hansberry’s characterization.
- An example phone for Beneatha is included for modeling
The One-Pager
- Students receive a template on which they write a theme from the play and doodle or draw illustrations or symbols that depict the theme.
- I provide spaces in which they write a quote with a citation that they’ve chosen to represent the characters.
- Students include an illustrated depiction of the character in the block as well.
- Another space prompts kids to write a quote that illustrates a prominent symbol in the play.
- Then they must doodle their depiction of the symbol in the block
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CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
- A character’s journal after completion of Act 1
- A bundled collection of 10 ten culminating activities which includes:
- Analysis from different perspectives of Langston Hughes’s poem, “Let America be America Again”
- A graphic organizer prompting discussion of Hansberry’s use of symbols to enhance characterization
- And eight more choices for culminating activities such as dialogues, letters, sequels, etc.
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Movie Guide
Activities to complete while viewing the 2008 version of A Raisin in the Sun.
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COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES
- Gender role activity
- Race activity
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FORMAL ASSESSMENTS
- Comprehensive final test with multiple-choice, short answer (complete sentence), and paragraph questions and prompts.
- Formal essay prompts including four prompts about symbolism, gender roles, universality, and dreams
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BONUS:
- Bookmarks
- Poster or Packet Cover
- Each of these resources is available for purchase individually in my store.
- Please click on the links below to browse or to see detailed previews of the resources.
AVAILABLE AS A PDF AND I HAVE ADDED A DIGITAL LAYER USING THE TPT EASEL ACTIVITIES TOOL.
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