Everything you need to understand or teach The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat.
The Farming of Bones, Danticat told Megan Rooney in The Brown Daily Herald, is a survivor's story, based on the true story of a woman who was killed in the massacre. "But I wanted her to live," Danticat says, and in the book, she does. The book, which has received almost universally favorable reviews, is based on historical facts, filtered through Haitian tales and oral history, "a collage of various characters and experiences...
The Farming of Bones Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including: