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Pgs 17-22

· The following version of this short story was used to create this Lesson Plan: Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.” The Jazz Fiction Anthology, edited by Sascha Feinstein and David Rife, Indiana UP, 2009, pp. 17-48.

· The short story has internal divisions that are neither titled nor numbered, so, to facilitate study, this Lesson Plan assigns descriptors for the relevant sections consisting of page numbering and, where relevant, beginning phrases.

· Given the brevity of the story, this Lesson Plan will be similarly brief.

· The story begins with the narrator noting being unsettled by newspaper readings.

· As the narrator progresses towards work, he continues to consider his reading, worry for Sonny rising in him: “He became real to me again” (17).

· The narrator considers Sonny and his youth, and details of the newspaper readings that have unsettled him are revealed.

· Circumstances surrounding Sonny’s current predicament are related, and the...

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