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Lesson 1 (from Section 1: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “The Dead of September 11” through “A Race in Mind: The Press in Deed”)
Objective
Students will classify and analyze the way borders are used literally and metaphorically in the book’s first two selections, “The Dead of September 11” and “The Foreigner’s Home.”
Two key questions in the first section of The Source of Self-Regard are how borders can divide us and what happens when borders are crossed. These borders can be literal borders between countries or metaphorical borders--between races, between sexes, between ideologies, between the living and the dead. Focusing students’ attention on the use of this symbolic device will offer them an important tool for understanding the rest of Part 1.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Have students jot down some ideas and feelings that come to mind when they hear the word “border.” How are responses similar? How are they divergent? Ask students whether that means there is a “right” way to view this symbol. If necessary, remind students that...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.9, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.9, 11-12.10
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