Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Lesson Plan

Read the following: "An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich," "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," and "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.3

   
   Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1

   
   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

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