The ELA end of course assessment usually asks from students to write a comparative analysis, and often presents students with a bit of Shakespeare. This text set is meant to help students with both of those goals. Students will meet two characters who deal with injustice because of prejudice: Thami Mbikwana, a young black South African living under Apartheid in the play My Children, My Africa! and Shylock, the maligned money lended from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. After learning about