Everything you need to understand or teach Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu.
In Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us, first person narrator Mamush discovers his father Samuel is dead when he returns home to Washington, DC for Christmas. Determined to understand what really happened to Samuel, Mamush ventures out on a quest for the truth. Throughout his time in DC and Chicago, Mamush revisits a series of places and memories that challenge his sense of reality and of self. The novel obscures conventional notions of linearity in order to explore themes including grief, belonging, and identity.
Someone Like Us Lesson Plans contain 173 pages of teaching material, including:
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