Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Lesson Plan

Read the Prologue through Chapter 5.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Prologue through Chapter 2

In the Prologue, Audre describes her desire to channel energies from both her mother and father, her masculine and feminine sides. She describes a sense of self that is deeply rooted in the histories and cultures of the women who have come...