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Everyday Use P 3

The document provides teaching materials for analyzing the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. It includes objectives, a data analysis sheet, significant quotes from the story, major themes of heritage, education, racism and resistance, and symbols like the house and quilts. Students are assigned homework interpreting questions about characters' feelings and understanding based on details from the story. A quiz on vocabulary from the story is scheduled for the following Tuesday.

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Everyday Use P 3

The document provides teaching materials for analyzing the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. It includes objectives, a data analysis sheet, significant quotes from the story, major themes of heritage, education, racism and resistance, and symbols like the house and quilts. Students are assigned homework interpreting questions about characters' feelings and understanding based on details from the story. A quiz on vocabulary from the story is scheduled for the following Tuesday.

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Everyday

Use
ALICE WALKER.
Today’s Objectives
1- Identify and analyze different themes
2- Identify and analyze themes in the story
Data Analysis Sheet
In pairs compete the first part of page 2 in the Data analysis sheet

Identify and explain the use and effect of three literary techniques:

Examples:

Comparison and contrast

Foreshadowing

Figurative language

Irony
Data Analysis Sheet
Significant quotes

“She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two,
sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us
with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she
read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.”

“I never had an education myself. After second grade the school closed down. Don’t ask me why: in
1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now.”

‘What happened to Dee?’ I wanted to know. ‘She’s dead,’ Wangero said. ‘I couldn’t bear it any longer,
being named after the people who oppress me.’
Continued Quotes
“She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house
with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included.
When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the
house”

“You just don’t understand,’ she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car. ‘What don’t I understand?’ I
wanted to know. ‘Your heritage,’ she said.”
Data Analysis Sheet
Major Themes:
 Heritage and the everyday

Education

Racism , resistance, and sacrifice.

Objects, symbolism, and writing


Major Symbols
THE HOUSE QUILTS
Interpret and Evaluate questions
H.W Due Thursday
1- What can you infer about Mama’s feelings toward Maggie and Dee, based on the information she
gives before Dee arrives ?

2-Do you think the reason Dee gives for changing her name is her only reason? Explain your answer.

3- How does the origin of the quilts affect Maggie’s feelings about them? How does it affect Dee?

4- How does Dee feel about Maggie? Support your answer with details from the story?

5- Dee says at the end, “ You just don’t understand,” In your opinion, does Mama understand ?
Explain.
Quiz Tuesday October 6th 2020
Vocabulary Set A

And Everyday Use

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