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Lesson 1 (from Author's Note to Chapter 4)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to discuss what being a woman meant to Afong, and what her life reveals about gender roles. Afong believes being a woman is a punishment for wrongs she did when she was a man in another life. She finds being a woman to have no power.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What does Afong's belief that being a woman is a punishment reveal what is like for her to be a woman? What is expected of Afong because she is a woman? Why does Afong refer to herself as being powerless and being property? How does Afong lack the power to create the life that she wants? How does her arranged marriage show that she is property? Based on what Afong knows of the lives of her sisters, what is life like for wives? How is Afong a living reminder to her...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3(e), 9-10.7, 11-12.3(e), 11-12.7
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