Lesson Plan Sana Amanat & Kamala Khan K-5

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 K-5) allows students to explore the impact of South Asian and Muslim representation in real life and media, analyze image and video to make inferences and draw similarities and differences and understand the contributions of fictional and real-life “superheroes.”