Notes of a Native Son Lesson Plan

Baldwin and Menakem: A Study of Culture

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will explore the work of Resmaa Menakem, participate in a meditation to experience firsthand how culture lives through them, and write personal essays linking their experience and study to Baldwin's text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

Part 1: “Trauma decontextualised in a people can look...