How memory, inheritance, and the places we call home shape a self in motion
Students open the Grade 12 Identity and Belonging unit by reading an original composition about a student learning that home is made from remembered relationships as well as physical rooms. They then study a clearly labeled classroom paraphrase and close reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987; ISBN 9781400033416), considering how memory, inheritance, and the history held by a house shape identity and belonging. The lesson returns to the essential question: How do we make a self and a sense of belonging in a world that keeps changing?
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