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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Pages 1 - 56))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze how Taddeo's decision to begin the book with personal reflections, including a graphic and disturbing story about her own mother, sets the tone for Part I of the book. In the first sentence of the Prologue, Taddeo reveals that her mother, as a young woman, was followed to work for a time every day by a much older man who masturbated as he followed her. Taddeo discloses that her mother chose not to contact police or to confront the man. In Part I of the book, Taddeo goes on to describe the experiences of several women who also experience subjugation, discomfort, and even assault at the hands of men.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What stories does Taddeo tell from her own life and from her mother's life in the Prologue? Why do you think Taddeo chooses these...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1(d), 9-10.1(e), 11-12.1(d), 11-12.1(e)
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