Black History 365 Sub Plan: Code-Switching, Voice, and Identity | Middle School Language Arts| 60-Minute Lesson

This Black History 365 one-day sub plan helps middle school students explore code-switching, voice, audience, purpose, and identity. Students analyze how people adjust language depending on setting while learning that home language, cultural language patterns, dialects, and identity deserve respect.

Designed for a 60-minute class period, this resource requires minimal teacher guidance and is ideal for substitute days, emergency lesson plans, literacy units, writing instruction, speaking and listening practice, identity units, culturally responsive teaching, or year-round Black History 365 instruction.

This resource includes a substitute directions page, student reading passage, vocabulary preview, comprehension questions, audience-purpose-voice comparison chart, language choice analysis activity, written response, exit ticket, extension activity, and answer key.