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Lesson 1 (from Prologue: "December 2002," Spring: Chapters 1-3, and Summer: Chapters 4-8)
Objective
Students will meticulously analyze the many different elements of the cover art included alongside the narrative of Housegirl in order to deepen their understanding of the connection between the work's themes and the cover art that is chosen by Donkor to underscore these themes.
Visual literacy is a very important skill to foster in today's world and the vivid artwork featured on the cover of Housegirl provides an excellent opportunity to teach students skills in visual literacy. One edition of the novel features a photograph depicting a young woman wearing a traditional Ghanaian headwrap. Many reviewers of the novel explicitly note how the beautiful cover of the book had drawn them to read it. Students will look critically at the cover of the book--its font, its imagery, its color choices, and other elements--in order to improve their visual literacy skills and to investigate the visual choices...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.2(b), 9-10.9, 11-12.2(b), 11-12.9
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