Click this link to read “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara.
(Optional): Click here for an audio reading of “The Lesson.”
Activity 2
This link brings you to an interesting discussion of “The Lesson” by literary critic Rena Korb from the BMCC database Literature Resource Center (secondary source). Click here for PDF of the article.
Activity 3 (optional)
For an article on Bambara’s use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in her writing, click this link to the BMCC library database Literature Resource Center. Or click here for PDF file of the article.
Activity 4
Click this link for two Youtube reviews of common literary terms.
Click this link for another video, which includes addtional literary terms and devices.
Activity 5
Quiz 4
This is a 20-question multiple-choice quiz that reviews material covered from Week 1 through Week 4.
Quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m. Monday, February 16 to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, February 22. Quiz must be taken in one setting, and students have 90 minutes in which to complete it.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the Review Quizzes module, click Quiz 4.
