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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Chapters 1 - 5))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze Sophie's experiences as a relatively privileged, mixed-race teenager in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Sophie's father is Italian-American and her mother is Congolese, and in the DRC, her mother has some status and respect as the founder and director of a bonobo sanctuary. Sophie is also cushioned from some of the harsher realities of the poverty and suffering millions of other Congolese people experience. As an obviously mixed-race person, Sophie sometimes endures teasing from her mother's staff; conversely, she is offered every chance to evacuate the DRC during the violence at least in part because she is mixed-race.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Who is Sophie, and how would you describe her ethnic and cultural background? When Sophie visits her mother during the year before her fifteenth birthday, how does she feel people in the DRC react...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.1(a), 9-10.1(e), 11-12.1, 11-12.1(a), 11-12.1(e)
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