Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Lesson Plan

The Jacobs Diary Part II

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4

Common Core Standards:

to deepen their understanding of Jacobs' thematic decisions

Structure:

Your students will again do individual work in their designated Jacobs notebooks. They will again write from Jacobs' perspective before she starts writing the book. In their entry they should debate how to represent religion, focusing on answering the following questions:

1) What impression do I want the reader to have of my religious beliefs and observances?

2) What assumptions am I making about my reader's religious outlook?

3) How can religion enhance or detract from my...