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Various activities to analyze Between the World and Me. Rhetorical Analysis graphic organizers, motif to message activity, discussion sheets, comparative analysis, say-means-matters chart, and final paper assignment. All activities have been used successfully used in high school IB/MYP classes. These are great activities to get students to closely analyze Coates's beautiful text.

These various activities and worksheets give students the ability to analyze Tennessee Williams's critique of his societal expectations in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Students will examine expectations of family, wealth, race, and gender through close readings of the text with strong evidence to back up their conclusions. It also includes a vocabulary bundle with activities, homework and a final quote analysis test on the play. As a bonus, it includes a small final writing assignment in which studen

This includes an evidence based graphic organizer in which students examine how Tennessee Williams critiques 1950's Southern society in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The top part of the worksheet asks students to examine Williams's critical tone in the text. The bottom half includes a comparison of the play to two significant scenes in the 1958 film. Students will consider the differences and why such changes were made during this time period. There is a bonus second page that includes a graphic organ

An assignment sheet for a rhetorical analysis paper of Between the World and Me. On the second page, it includes an evidence chart for students to use as an outline for their paper. The evidence chart helps to identify strong evidence and specific rhetorical appeals as it creates Coates's message. An example body paragraph is included on the last page.

A graphic organizer for groups to gather evidence from Coates's Between the World and Me to draw conclusions as to what his message is through the repetition of the body. On the second page, there's a handout for another activity to share theme statements developed from the evidence and used for a gallery walk around the room.

Is Juliet an independent woman? Or is she easily controlled by men? Students will use the graphic organizer to include direct evidence from the play, a translation of the text into their own words and an explanation of their evidence as it supports their argument about Juliet. Students can either use this as an independent class assignment, and they can also use this as a preparation for a fully class debate.

A creative writing activity for students to write a script picturing if Romeo and Juliet ran off and living well into the future. Students have to use Elizabethan English in their writing and imagining if this is just young love that won't last, or if it is truly love at first sight. This includes directions for the assignment and a short example of student writing.

A graphic organizer for students to gather evidence of the rhetorical appeals used in Between the World and Me. Students will examine the effect of the appeals on the reader.