Lesson Plan Sana Amanat & Kamala Khan 9-12

Sana Amanat is a Pakistani American comic book editor and executive producer at Marvel Studios. She co-created the Marvel character, Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani American Muslim girl from New Jersey—just like Sana. A central plot in Kamala’s family story is the 1947 Partition, the historical separation of British-ruled India into a Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India, which resulted in the largest mass migration in global history and subsequent violence killing 2 million people. Amanat’s unique storytelling superpowers have redefined the comic world.

This lesson plan (can be adapted for 9-12) allows students to explore the history and personal impacts of the 1947 Partition in India, analyze the representation of historical events in fictional stories, and understand the components of a comic strip and recreate them in a personal project.