2) A short, short stream of conciousness story - "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid (you can even listen to a recording of the story with this link... you can also find it in Discovering Literature
(Cluster on the board)
4) Read aloud or listen to online version.
5) Discussion Questions
- What does the syntax (sentence structure) help us understand?
- How does the balance of the mother's voice vs. the daughter's voice help us as readers?
- What does the wordle (below) of the story help us to see?
- What is the significance of the parallelism (repetition to make a point) of the slut comments?
- What kind of woman do you see this girl growing up to be?
- Once you understand that the story is set in Antigua which has a long history of slaves, and where, surprisingly, many slave families have clung to the old notions that they are meant to be slaves, how does your reading change?
6) Make notes/answers to these questions - you'll need them for Monday. I've moved our comparing and contrasting work to that day.
- You can also take time to work on your poem.
Have a happy weekend!
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