Second Class Citizen Lesson Plan

The Emecheta and Adah Overlap

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will research Emecheta to determine to what extent Second Class Citizen is autobiographical and use technology to illustrate the commonalities between Adah and the author in a ven diagram.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1

Structure:

While Second Class Citizen is a work of fiction, it is considered to be semi-autobiographical, based on Emecheta's own childhood and early adulthood.

To begin this activity, break up the class into pairs. Each student pair will use the internet to research the author, Buchi Emecheta. Their...