Kindred Lesson Plan

Interacting with Slave Narratives

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to engage with historical primary source documents that connect back to the novel.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9

Structure:

In this activity, students will read short slave narratives and make connections between the real-life descriptions and Dana’s experiences in Kindred.

To begin, ask students how their lives will be recorded and preserved for the people hundreds of years later who want to know about how they lived. Students may say social media, articles on the Internet, books, movies, and television. Then, ask how...