Understanding Sontag: Sontag’s Journals
This handout explores Sontag’s reflections on love and queer identity in her journals and relates her experience to students’ lives.
IDENTITY LESSON 1: HANDOUT 2
1 class period (45-60 min)
- History and Social Studies
People > LGBTQ
People > Women
Themes > Culture
Themes > Modern World
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Biography
Place > The Americas
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Using primary sources
- Writing skills
- ELA Reading: 1, 3, 7, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-3, 7-10
Complete the lesson with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign the full texts or longer sections of Sontag’s published journals, Reborn and As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, in advance.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.