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08-21-2014
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Lesson Plan
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Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade
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The “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s ‘Learning to Read'” lesson consists of two activities that should be used together. In this lesson, students learn about African American literacy before and immediately after Emancipation through the poem “Learning to Read” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911).