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Lesson 8 Chapter 8 and 9
Objectives
- To demonstrate understanding of chapters
- To understand time period of the story
Materials
PowerPoint presentation of Depression era images
NOTE: Prepare images from the site listed below.
Go to http://memory.loc.gov
(This is a collection of primary source materials (photos,
pamphlets, documents, etc.) relating to the history and
culture of the United States.
Click on “Search” button.
Scroll down to the collection entitled “Depression
Era to WWII.”
Click “Black and White Photos.”
Click “Search” button.
Type “Arkansas” in the search box.
Following are suggested images:
06 Typical view of store and cotton trader
07 Arkansas Sharecropper
11 Arkansas tenant farmer
18 Cotton picker
31 Daughter of Negro sharecropper
52 Cotton pickers
64 Picking cotton
73 Negro cotton picker
79 Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off . . .
91 Sharecropper with homemade water wagon
99 Housewife boiling clothes
Procedure
- Discuss highlights of chapters 8 and 9.
- Define setting. To help students visualize the setting
of Ms. Angelou’s story, show images from Arkansas
during the Great Depression.
Show each image once without comment. Students should
a) jot down what the image shows and b) what it suggests
about the time period.
Show images a second time and have students share their
comments; lead students to an understanding of the harsh
circumstances created by the Depression. Collect responses.
Homework
Read chapters 10 and 11.
NOTE: The teacher is cautioned to prepare students
for the sensitive nature of the material presented in chapters
11 and 12, the chapters in which Maya Angelou is sexually
molested. For some sensitive students and/or their parents,
the material might seem quite graphic and offensive. I always
forewarn students (most can not wait to read those chapters
following my warning) and give them the option of not reading
them if they think they might feel uncomfortable. A careful,
teacher-lead discussion of the events of those chapters
can adequately cover highlights and themes.
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