Jasmine Lesson Plan

Trauma and the Mind

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will put Jasmine in the context of recent trauma research

Common Core Standards:

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

Structure:

Begin this activity by reading aloud the following passages from The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk:

“In order to know who we are—to have an identity—we must know (or at least feel that we know) what is and what was ‘real.’ We must observe what we see around us and label it correctly; we must also be able to turst our memories and be able...