Everything you need to understand or teach The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack.
Henri is the son of a black woman from New Orleans and the white owner of Pin Oak. When Henri is just a small boy, his mother dies. Henri's father takes him to Pin Oak where he raises him alongside his son from his white wife. Although the father never publicly acknowledges that Henri is his son, he does not deny the child either. When Henri becomes...
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Lesson Plans contain 132 pages of teaching material, including: