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Your assignment is to create a PowerPoint project that displays depth and breadth of understanding of your assigned chapter, related historical information, and text features. Please reference my exemplar model uploaded on my website (also shown in class). You will have two days to work on the project in class; the project is due on Tuesday, November 19th (bring on a flash drive). Late projects earn 50%.
The Wrong Side of Murder Creekby Bob Zellner Chapter #1 “Growing Up in L.A. (Lower Alabama)”
History • Bob Zellner’s family lived in Florida and Georgia, but primarily southern Alabama. His father and grandfather were both Klansman. Both of Zellner’s parents attended college. Although family members could “recite” the father’s lineage, the mother’s great grandfather was a “woods colt.”
After college, James Abraham Zellner (Bob Zellner’s father) went to Europe to convert the Jews to Christianity. While “spreading the gospel” in Russia, Zellner’s dad began to question his KKK upbringing and even “preached together and sang” with blacks, soon forgetting “they were black.”
After returning to Alabama, James married Ruby Rachael and had five children. James Zellner discovered that he could not believe in white supremacy when considering “the high ideals of his country, [and] the teachings of his church and Bible . . .”
Moving Around • The Zellner family moved about every four years to various country towns in Alabama -- raising vegetable gardens and animals to supplement their meager income. When Bob began school, he failed the first grade.
After learning that young Bob was struggling in school because he was dyslexic, he moved to Mobile, Alabama with his Aunt Peg and Uncle Doug. Mobile -- with its paper mills and industry -- was quite a change from rural Loxley.
Passive Bob • Zellner wraps up the chapter and establishes his passive but determined nature by conveying to the reader how he would have to fight at each new school, often crying.
Chapter #1 (Mrs. B) Bob Zellner’s family lived in Florida and Georgia, but primarily southern Alabama. His father and grandfather were both Klansman. Both of Zellner’s parents attended college. Although family members could “recite” the father’s lineage, the mother’s great grandfather was a “woods colt.” After college, James Abraham Zellner (Bob Zellner’s father) went to Europe to convert the Jews to Christianity. While “spreading the gospel” in Russia, Zellner’s dad began to question his KKK upbringing and even “preached together and sang” with blacks, soon forgetting “they were black.” After returning to Alabama, James married Ruby Rachael and had five children. James Zellner discovered that he could not believe in white supremacy when considering “the high ideals of his country, [and] the teachings of his church and Bible . . .” The Zellner family moved about every four years to various country towns in Alabama -- raising vegetable gardens and animals to supplement their meager income. When Bob began school, he failed the first grade. After learning that young Bob was struggling in school because he was dyslexic, he moved to Mobile, Alabama with his Aunt Peg and Uncle Doug. Mobile -- with its paper mills and industry -- was quite a change from rural Loxley. Zellner wraps up the chapter and establishes his passive but determined nature by conveying to the reader how he would have to fight at each new school, often crying.
