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 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.