Carol L. Cook
Sample Lesson #1-Life of Booker T. Washington
OBJECTIVE: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
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1. Identify the accomplishments of Booker T. Washington
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2. Identify the role models in Washington’s life
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3. Identify the characteristics that made Washington successful
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4. Identify how Washington dealt with prejudice
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5. Identify how Washington dealt with lack of ethnic credit associations
MATERIALS NEEDED: UP FROM SLAVERY
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What do you know about Booker T. Washington?
2. What characteristics do you think make a person successful in business?
3. What do you think was the political environment in Booker T. Washington’s times?
4. What was life like for a Black person during Washington’s times?
PROCEDURE:
1. Read UP FROM SLAVERY
2. Discuss book
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will go to the library and do a report on Booker T. Washington’s life or on Tuskegee Institute
Sample Lesson #2-Life of Mary McLeod Bethune
OBJECTIVE: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify the accomplishments of Mary McLeod Bethune
2. Identify the role models in Bethune’s life
3. Identify the characteristics that made Bethune successful
4. Identify how Bethune dealt with prejudice
5. Identify how Bethune dealt with lack of ethnic credit associations
MATERIALS NEEDED: MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What do you know about Mary McLeod Bethune?
2. What characteristics do you think make a person successful in business?
3. What do you think was the political environment in Mary McLeod Bethune’s times?
4. What was life like for a Black person during Bethune’s times?
PROCEDURE:
1. Read MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
2. Discuss book
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will go to the library and do a report on Mary McLeod Bethune
Sample Lesson #3-Life of John H. Johnson
OBJECTIVES: THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify the accomplishments of John H. Johnson
2. Identify the role models in Johnson’s life
3. Identify the characteristics that made Johnson successful
4. Identify how Johnson dealt with prejudice
5. Identify how Johnson dealt with lack of ethnic credit associations
MATERIALS NEEDED: SUCCEEDING AGAINST ODDS, John H. Johnson
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What do you know about John H. Johnson?
2. What characteristics do you think make a person successful in business?
3. What do you think was the political environment in Johnson’s times?
4. What was life like for a Black person during Johnson’s times?
PROCEDURE:
1. Read SUCCEEDING AGAINST ODDS
2. Discuss book
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will read an article from EBONY MAGAZINE regarding a famous Black person. Write an essay on the qualities that led this person in his search of success
Sample Lesson #4-Life of Jake Simmons, Jr.
OBJECTIVES: THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify the accomplishments of Jake Simmons, Jr.
2. Identify the role models in Simmons’s life
3. Identify the characteristics that made Simmons successful
4. Identify how Simmons dealt with prejudice
5. Identify how Simmons dealt with lack of ethnic credit associations
MATERIALS NEEDED: STAKING A CLAIM, JAKE SIMMONS, JR.
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What do you know about Jake Simmons, Jr. and the oil business?
2. What characteristics do you think make a person successful in business?
3. What do you think was the political environment in the Midwest in Simmons’s times?
4. What was life life like for a Black person during Simmons’s times in the Midwest?
PROCEDURE:
1. Read STAKING A CLAIM, JAKE SIMMONS, JR.
2. Discuss Book
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will go to the library and do a research project on the oil industry in the 1920-1970 time period
Sample Lesson #5-Characteristics of Success
OBJECTIVES: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify characteristics of success
2. Identify characteristics that will hamper success
3. Be able to demonstrate characteristics of success
MATERIALS NEEDED: EXTRAORDINARY BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY TIMES
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of success?
2. What characteristics could hamper success?
3. What characteristics can be developed?
PROCEDURE:
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1. Read EXTRAORDINARY BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY TIMES
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2. Discuss different famous Black persons
RELATED ACTIVITY: Each student will demonstrate one characteristic of success
Sample Lesson 6-Insurmountable Problems
OBJECTIVES: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify problems that could be encountered by a Black business person
2. Identify ways to deal with these problems
3. Learn how to make decisions on business problems
MATERIALS NEEDED: Case Studies and Speakers
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What kinds of problems could be encountered by a Black business person?
2. How do you think you could deal with these problems?
3. What would be the best ways to learn how to deal with these problems?
PROCEDURES:
1. Read case studies
2. Listen to speakers
3. Discuss both
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will do case studies and submit them
Sample Lesson #7-Black History
OBJECTIVES: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Identify some important people in Black History
2. Identify what has been done by some of these people
3. Identify the importance of what these people have done
MATERIALS: EYES ON THE PRIZE film series
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. Who do you know from Black History?
2. What did they do?
3. Of what significance were their contributions?
PROCEDURE:
1. Watch EYES ON THE PRIZE
2. Discuss
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will write an essay on one person mentioned in this series
Sample Lesson #8-Role Models
OBJECTIVES: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Select qualities that he/she will look for in role models
2. Identify qualities not wanted in role models
3. Select role models for himself/herself
MATERIALS NEEDED: EBONY, JET, EM Magazines; Speakers, Books on Black Americans
BRAINSTORMING QUESTIONS:
1. What qualities do you admire in a person?
2. What qualities do you dislike in a person?
3. Are these qualities of a successful person?
4. Can you develop these qualities?
PROCEDURE:
1. Read magazines, books
2. Listen to speakers
3. Discuss
RELATED ACTIVITY: Students will select one role model from the magazines, books or speakers and write an essay on his/her characteristics and how you could develop these characteristics
