So Long a Letter Lesson Plan

A Letter from... Part 4

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will imagine a letter from Daba to Ramatoulaye.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

Structure:

This is the final day of a unit-long activity.

The end of the novel shifted its focus to Ramatoulaye's children and their futures. Daba is her eldest daughter, and Ramatoulaye writes about being both proud and perplexed by how she conducts her marriage and life in a more modernized, feminist society. For your last piece, write a letter from Daba to her mother. How do you think she would respond to the hardships her mother has experienced? What might she encourage Ramatoulaye to do...