Four-Week Unit Plan Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird & Native Son
Unit
This four-week unit guides students through a critical literacy approach to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Richard Wright's Native Son. Assigned activities will help students analyze narrative voice, character perspective, racial representation, and censorship while developing critical thinking skills to question power dynamics and social hierarchies in literature.
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Unit Goals
Students will analyze how narrative perspectives shapes the understanding of racial justice
Students will compare representations of Black characters in both novels
Students will examine the historical context of both texts and their reception
Students will evaluate arguments for and against censorship in educational settings
Students will create counter-narratives that amplify marginalized voices
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Native Son and To Kill a Mockingbird are novels that address segregation equally against one another. This four-week unit is a great way to boost knowledge and strong connections between class peers, while also enhancing critical thinking, communication skills, and exemplifying creative minds in a modern, divided society such as the society we endure today!
Activities you can work on together
it’s important to engage in topics of diversity together as a class. Engagement allows for further exploration and being subjected to different cultural or overall perspectives of a topic.
In this Unit, you’ll find activities allowing students to come together and explore ideas and different perspectives, giving them mindful resources for navigating a modern diverse society and a strong perspective of their own!
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Unit Schedule:
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Narrative Voice and Perspective
Character Analysis and Racial Representation
Historical Context and Literary Reception
Censorship and Educational Value
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