1. Quarter 3, Unit 1, Lesson 2 Presentation

2. Structured Notes
Carlotta’s family is a true source of strength for her but all the connections between people can be very confusing. What is a family tree? How is a family tree usually represented?

3. Family Tree
Take our Carlotta’s Paternal and Maternal Family Tree Resource 2.1 “paternal” is the father’s side of the family and “maternal” is the mother’s side of the family

4. family tree tenant paternal farmer maternal Sharecropper memoir
Vocabulary
family tree
tenant
paternal
farmer
maternal
Sharecropper
memoir
carpetbagger
Redeemer
scalawag
disenfranchised

5. Learning Targets
I can cite evidence that supports my analysis of A Mighty Long Way.
I can analyze how incidents in A Mighty Long Way provoke Carlotta to make certain decisions.
This is a work of literary nonfiction. It is a memoir that reads like a story. Carlotta is a real person, and these events really happened to her. People write memoirs or biographies to tell the story of their personal experiences

6. Discussion Appointments
Carlotta’s travels handout. The cities listed are those Carlotta traveled to during her childhood/young adulthood and in which she felt the most freedom. Resource 2.2

7. Integration of Schools: The End of the Civil War
We are going to watch a video that talks about the aftermath of the Civil War and the events during the Reconstruction Period, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the reaction to equal citizenship status for African Americans. Take out “Life in the South after the Civil War” focus question and vocabulary. Resource 2.3 We will be answering the question and defining some vocabulary after viewing the video.

8. Focus Questions
“After the Confederacy was defeated in the Civil War, white political leaders who called themselves Redeemers tried to go back to the old social order that had existed during slavery. What were some ways they did this?” the term Redeemer held two meanings for white Southerners. The political leaders who were Redeemers used the word to reflect the redemption of the old social older between blacks and whites. To be redeemed also has a religious meaning—that God has saved someone from sin.

9. Video
war.html#lesson disenfranchised means people who are not allowed to have any power in a society.

10. After the video, take a few minutes to work with your groups to review your answers to the focus question.

11. Chalkboard Splash
Get out Your text, A Mighty Long Way. Turn to page 14.. And find the paragraph that starts with “Aunt Juanita and Uncle Freddie had three children of their own…” Follow along silently as I read this to you. When you’re following along you should annotate and look for details that lead Carlotta to change the way she views her life and her place in the world.

12. Next…
As I’m handing out a blank sentence strips to each of you. Retrieve A Mighty Long Way structured notes, Chapter 1, pages 3–26 from your homework.

13. Chalkboard Splash, Sentence Strip!
On your sentence strip, write down One detail from the reading that indicates how Carlotta might change due to the events in her life. Use your structured notes for additional support if needed. Once you are finished, place your sentence strip on the wall for a Chalkboard Splash.

14. Once everyone has posted their sentence strip, we are going to review all the “splashes” of detail provided by our classmates.
With your binder you are to quietly walk around and read each other “splashes” and Look for additional details that your classmates thought related to the following basic points:
Carlotta’s family life helping her to feel confident and loved,
The incident on the bus and her family’s attitude that they shouldn’t “stoop” to the level of responding to ignorance, and
Her visit to New York City and how it opened her eyes to how black people should be treated.

15. Turn and Talk
Take out A Mighty Long Way and A Mighty Long Way structured notes and Chapter 1. In your Literacy Circle Groups you are going to refer to your structure notes, as well as the sentence strips (that have been “splashed” on the board) and to turn and talk with you groups: Based on your reading of Chapter 1, how would you describe how Carlotta was taught by her family to be a part of her segregated reality in the South? What evidence can you find in the text to support your ideas? Once you have come up with a complete reasonable and complete response you are to answer the question above in complete paragraph on a separate sheet of paper. Repeat the same steps above for questions 2: “Although she was only eight years old when she visited New York City, from what you have read how did her three-month-long visit affect Carlotta? Use evidence from the text to support your ideas.”

16. Literacy Circle
Conduct Literacy Circle on Chapter 1.

17. Homework Read A Mighty Long Way, Chapter 2, Resource 2.4
Complete structured notes. Resource 2.5