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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Pages 1 - 40))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze the meaning of Trethewey's dream about her mother in Part I. Trethewey explains the dream she had three weeks after her mother's death in 1985, during which she walked with her mother and passed by the man who killed her. Trethewey feels great distress in waking from the dream, in which her mother has a wound in her forehead that mimics one of the bullet wounds that killed her. Trethewey also considers the devastating question her mother asks her, "Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?" (1).
Lesson
Class Discussion: What are the significant parts of the dream that Trethewey has about her mother three weeks after her mother's death? Why is Trethewey so distressed by this dream? Who else is in the dream besides Trethewey and her mother? What do Trethewey...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.2(f), 11-12.2(f)
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