Tar Baby

Tar Baby

  

by Toni Morrison

Challenges & Opportunities

Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching Tar Baby Teacher Pass


Teaching Tar Baby Teacher Pass includes:

  • Assignments & Activities
  • Reading Quizzes
  • Current Events & Pop Culture articles
  • Discussion & Essay Questions
  • Challenges & Opportunities
  • Related Readings in Literature & History

Sample of Challenges & Opportunities


How'd you like to teach a text about old wrinkled breasts? That could raise a few student eyebrows, now wouldn't it? Or how about premarital sex? Rape? Killing? Racism?

Yeesh. We hope we didn't scare you off.