Reading Act 1 Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

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On April 4, 2014, I presented a lesson that focused on the assigned reading of Act I in Raisin in the Sun. The main goal of the class was to get students to use higher level thinking to analyze the text and find the themes and deeper meaning in the play. This reflection will focus on some of the strength and weaknesses of the lesson and my instruction.
One of the main struggles within the lesson was how to effectively use time to cover all the goals of my plan. This lesson was challenged by the time constraints of having a 50-minute class period and a quiz that was taking 25 minutes of the class. When planning the lesson I thought it would be possible to place students in groups to do close reading questions. I quickly discovered, after doing poetry brackets at the beginning of class and then discussing the main points of Act I, there was very little time to actually do the activity. Students were only in groups less than 10 minutes and could not really look at the text too closely before I needed to move them on. I felt that this cause several problems with the presentation o...

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