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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said - Chapter 9: White Superiority)
Objective
Students will investigate Irving’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Waking Up White and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Irving includes just before the body of the text is a quote attributed to the famous black author James Baldwin. The epigraph states, “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see,” (7) thereby introducing many of the text’s major themes such as invisibility, privilege, and collectivism. Students will study the author's use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so can illuminate the text's meaning, even if they have only just begun to read the work in question.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why might an author begin a book or a chapter with a quote from a different...
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.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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