Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Lesson Plan

Letter to the Editor

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will learn to write a formal "letter to the editor" critiquing an article (opion, academic, or news) or written journalism

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.1.a; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.1.b

Structure:

Audre Lorde's "An Open Letter to Mary Daly" serves as a scathing critique of Daly's erasure of women of color from her work, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. In the letter, Lorde succinctly explains Daly's work while also laying key arguments critiquing the work, and later offering suggestions to strengthen the work. With this activity, students...