Lesson 5: A Raisin in the Sun, Act I, Scene 1, Part 1

Today you will

• Analyze how Lorraine Hansberry uses the dedication, epigraph, and opening stage directions to introduce central ideas about dreams, family, and constraint.

• Use precise evidence language and cause-effect connectors to explain what the setting suggests about the Younger family’s life.

• Decode and spell multi-morphemic words built from the root grat and the suffix -itude.