Takaki - Chapter 5

This chapter focuses a lot on the lives of northern and southern blacks during the mid 1800s. In order to begin a lesson on this chapter, I would have students make a Venn Diagram, comparing the lives of northern and southern blacks. For this task, I would emphasize to students that they need to only cite examples presented in this chapter and forget about any prior knowledge. After students complete their individual Venn Diagrams, we would then make one as a class. I would then use the class Venn Diagram to start a group discussion on whether Takaki's chapter was similar to their previous lessons on black lives prior to the Civil War. Students would be divided up into groups of 4 or 5 for these discussions so as to encourage all students to partake in the discussion.