UNIT:
Lesson: 10
Text Title
Indianapolis Recorder Photograph
Main Idea
This is a picture of the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper building that used to be located on Indiana Avenue. The Indianapolis Recorder was the reason for the majority of job opportunities for people of color in Indianapolis at this time, especially young people.
Essential Question
The unit essential questions developed through this lesson are…
- What is entrepreneurship?
- What motivated Black entrepreneurs in Indiana in the 1900s?
Content Objective
By engaging in this lesson, students will know/understand that…
- Pictures with captions can deepen our understanding about a topic.
Literacy Objective
By engaging in this lesson, students will strengthen their ability to…
- Use the picture and the text, through think-aloud, to understand the main idea of the text.
Standards Alignment
- Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts of information in a text efficiently. (RI.2.5)
