The Wretched of the Earth Lesson Plan

Fanon and Jung: Decolonization and the Shadow

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will connect Fanon’s ideas with Jungian shadow psychology in order to explore the relationship between the individual and the collective.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4

Structure:

Read the following passage aloud together as a class: “And the colonized are cured of colonial neurosis by driving the colonist out by force. Once...