“I thought that in order to make it into the pages of the books you had to be light. So, in fact, one of the first times I drew my family, I drew them with light skin.” Actress Lupita Nyong’o shared this quote in an interview explaining her inspiration for Sulwe . I found this moment so moving that it sparked an idea for a 6th-grade lesson . The aim was to: introduce students to Nyong’o as an author (they had read Sulwe  the previous week), explore why diversity in liter

Check this lesson on the inspiring story of runner Jesse Owens and the practical uses of the modal verb ‘can’.