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English 11

English 11. Do Now. Objectives. Discuss reading up to page 50. Compare the Breedloves with Claudia and Frieda’s family. . The Doll Test.

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English 11

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  1. English 11

  2. Do Now

  3. Objectives • Discuss reading up to page 50. • Compare the Breedloves with Claudia and Frieda’s family.

  4. The Doll Test During the 1940s and ‘50s, the husband and wife team Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted a series of psychological experiments examining young black children's relationship to race. The study had several parts, but the "Doll Test" is most remembered today: The Clarks gave very young children otherwise identical brown and white dolls. The children were asked to say which doll was "nice," and which was "bad." An overwhelming majority of the black children identified the white doll positively and the brown doll negatively. The results of the study were cited in the Brown v. Board of Education decision as an indication of the psychological damage done to black children by school segregation.

  5. Dandelions “The dandelions at the base of the telephone pole. Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they were pretty. But grown-ups say, ‘Miss Dunion keeps her yard so nice. Not a dandelion anywhere.’ Hunkie women in black babushkas go into the fields with baskets to pull them up. But they do not want the yellow heads—only the jagged leaves. They make dandelion soup” (47). “She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads this fall she peered into. And owning them made her a part of the world, and the world a part of her” (48). “Dandelions. A dart of affection leaps out from her to them. But they do not look at her and do not send love back. She thinks ‘they are ugly. They are weeds.’ Preoccupied with that revelation, she trips on the sidewalk crack. Anger stirs and wakes in her

  6. Mary Janes • Each pale yellow wrapper has a picture on it. A picture of little Mary Jane, for whom the candy is named. Smiling white face. Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort…To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane (50).

  7. Point of View • What is the point of view of the reading from last night? • How are Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove’s fights described? • What are the two humiliations or emasculations that Cholly has experienced?

  8. Breedloves and Mactiers BreedlovesMactiers

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