When I Was Puerto Rican Lesson Plan

Memory and Memoir

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will use the articles to analyze subjectivity in memoir, applying what they learned and their subsequent ideas to Santiago's memoir.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3

Structure:

Read "Speak, Memory" by Oliver Sacks, "Though Subjective, Memoirs Carry Burden of Truth" by Carole Goldberg, and "Memoir and the Art of Memory" by Amy Friedman.

Using the ideas presented in these texts, begin a classwide discussion on subjectivity in memoir and what that means for the genre. You can springboard the discussion with the...