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Good reading of the story -Link
CC Treasure of Lemon Brown lesson plan
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Writing ideas:
What do you treasure?
-Pick one thing of solely sentimental value. Describe it and it's significance for you.
Why did Greg smile in the end thinking about the lecture his dad would give him?
-Realized his treausure was his dad's love...explain how Lemon taught him that
Fun video showing situational irony in The Treasure Of Lemon Brown
The Real Lemon Brown website
Historical context --being black in America in the 1930's
-State of civil rights examples:
•Brown V Board of Ed was 1954, so schools were segregated "separate but equal"
•Jim Crow Laws not overturned until 1964 with the Civil Rights Act
•Video -good summary of Jim Crow to Civil Rights Act (just 4 min.)
-Harlem, 1930's (Harlem Renaissance)
•Turning suffering into art, music, books -like Lemon, finding their treasure inside
The Treasure Of Lemon Brown --powerpoint (themes, vocabulary, symbolism...)
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Music!
James Cotton Plays Slow Blues on Harmonica
-Same style as Lemon Brown -Incredible performance!
Young Boy Plays Harmonica at Royal Albert Hall --inspiring (classical music)
B.B. King sings "How Blue Can You Get" -Concert clip for context about Blues music
B.B. King "Why I Sing The Blues"
-I suggest projecting the lyrics -(below), alongside the youtube photo montage
of B.B. that goes with the song
Lyrics for "Why I Sing The Blues" (Lemon Brown's life -all about the blues in these lyrics)
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