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Lesson 6

We will continue reading Part 2 in our jigsaw groups. As in the first jigsaw, we will frame our work with the epigraphs Wilkerson has selected to begin this section. We also will concentrate on one of the three focus figures to understand more about the events and experiences that impact their decisions and to broaden our understanding of the circumstances that led to the Great Migration.

Lesson Goals

  • Can I recognize and interpret important relationships among ideas and events within The Warmth of Other Suns?

  • Can I formulate and use questions to establish and deepen my understanding of The Warmth of Other Suns?

Texts

Core

  • Tradebook
    • The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage Books, 2010

Materials

Tools

Reference Guides

Question Sets

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Read

We will frame our jigsaw work with the opening epigraphs on page 124 by laura arnold and an unnamed individual, as chosen by Wilkerson for this section of The Warmth of Other Suns.

Listen and read along silently as your teacher or one of your peers reads aloud the epigraphs by Laura Arnold and an unnamed individual on page 124 of The Warmth of Other Suns. Keep these epigraphs in mind as you engage in your jigsaw reading; we will discuss their connections to the reading at the close of the lesson.

Activity 2: Read

We will participate in our second jigsaw reading, working in our expert groups and using the Jigsaw Note-Taking Tool to learn about our assigned focus figure for the second half of part 2 of Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns.

Step 1

Work with your expert group to read the assigned pages for your assigned focus figure and respond to the following guiding questions for the second Jigsaw 2, Part 2 on the Jigsaw Note-Taking Tool:

  1. Life Prior to Migration: What do you learn about each person’s life prior to their departure from the South? What questions do you have?

  2. Push-and-Pull Factors Influencing the Decision to Leave: What do you learn about the push-and-pull factors influencing each person’s decision? What questions do you have?

  3. Immediate Impacts of Migration: What do you learn about the immediate impact of each person’s migration and about their life away from the South? What questions do you have?

  4. Long-Term Impacts of Migration: What do you learn about the long-term impact of each person’s migration? What questions do you have?

Step 2

In your expert groups, read the following quote and respond to the question to further unpack your understanding of Part 2.

“The measure of a man’s estimate of your strength,” he finally told them, “is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.” (p. 41)

  1. What does this mean and how does it apply to the history being compiled by Wilkerson so far in the text?

Choose at least two questions for your focus figure from the Part 2Question Set and discuss them. Take notes in your Learning Log. Make sure to support your discussion points with evidence from the text.

Activity 3: Write

We will write responses to guiding questions to synthesize information and conclude this lesson’s work with the second half of part 2 of The Warmth of Other Suns.

Individually, compose a quick-write in which you respond to the following questions to help you think about the connections between what you read and the epigraphs by Laura Arnold and the unnamed individual:

  1. What is the relationship between the epigraphs that begins on page 124 and what you learned about your focus figure during our jigsaw reading?

  2. What do you think Wilkerson is trying to convey by beginning this part with these epigraphs?

Be prepared to share your ideas during a whole-class debrief.

Activity 4: Read

For homework, read pages 160–164 and 177–179 in part 2 of The Warmth of Other Suns.

For homework, read pages 160-164 and 177-179 in Part 2ofThe Warmth of Other Suns. Annotate the text with reference to the push factors that encouraged people to leave the South and the pull factors that encouraged people to move north and west.

If necessary, finish reading your jigsaw sections and adding responses to the Jigsaw Note-Taking Tool. Be ready to share with your home group in the next lesson.

Write new or interesting words you encounter in your Vocabulary Journal.