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Middle School Questions for Textual Analysis:
Booker T. Washington |
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Directions: Who was Booker T. Washington? How did he influence American history? What influenced him? Use the Questions for Textual Analysis to draw some conclusions about what you have learned by exploring the influences on and effects of Booker T. Washington's written work.
Lesson Credit: Curriculum Advisory Team member, Koleta Tilson.
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Middle School
Writing and Discussing the Works of Booker T. Washington |
1. When and where was Booker T. Washington born?
2. With work experience did he have prior to
becoming an educator? What impact did his experiences have on his life's work and philosophy about education?
3. What educational institution did Washington establish for former slaves? How did it fulfill its mission?
4. Who was the most influential critic of Booker T.
Washington? About what did they disagree?
5. Describe how Langston Hughes portrays Washington in the
poem.
6. Identify two of Washington's accomplishments
mentioned in the text of the poem.
7. Discuss the meaning of the expression "Cast down
your bucket where you are" from chapter fourteen of Up From Slavery.
8. Washington's title indicates he is moving up from slavery. If this is so, to where has he moved? Where is "up?"
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