Everything you need to understand or teach The Sky Is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines.
Ernest J. Gaines was thirty in 1963, the year in which "The Sky is Gray" was first published, but it was not until five years later, in 1968, that the story was published as the second story in Bloodline, the thematically interwoven collection with which readers associate it today. Written during the most turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement, the stories in Bloodline describe a less turbulent but perhaps even more racially raw period...
The Sky Is Gray Lesson Plans contain 137 pages of teaching material, including: