The Black Ball - Cambridge Stories of Ourselves
**Cambridge Stories of Ourselves
This is a lesson or set of lessons on The Black Ball, by Ralph Ellison.
The lesson is set out in any easy to follow format, with copious teachers notes providing the necessary information and a set of slides to present to students.
The lesson covers the main points and ideas and contains a number of student tasks (discussion, skill identification, group work, written task) related to the the
text.
It covers, Plot, narrative voice, imagery, conflict, themes, symbolism, lit devices, quotes, internal conflict and provides a summary of the text.
The lesson and slides are set as a text based information pack for chalk and talk to engage the students in discussion and analysis, once they have read the story.
The pack contains a Word document and Power Point - both are easily editable if required.
The text in the word doc may align differently once downloaded - created on google doc’s then converted into .docx.