Alice Walker: A Life, Part 1 cyber conversation continued
Continue your discussion of Alice Walker a Life here. This go round, we are all Discussion Directors. Look at the description in the Literature Circle handout. Develop questions that are open-ended, not yes and no. Reference the text specifically, talk about Evelyn White's ability to craft such an impressive depiction of Walker. How does she do this? Be specific in your analysis.
Post you discussion questions, just 3-5, then annswer someone else's questions and post further questions yourself. Do this back and forth dialogue at least three times between 2/7 and 2/12. Begin reading chapter 13-25.
Don't forget to keep vocabulary logs for the reading and reading logs. Everyone is his or her won, summarizer (ref. Literature Circles)
Continue your discussion of Alice Walker a Life here. This go round, we are all Discussion Directors. Look at the description in the Literature Circle handout. Develop questions that are open-ended, not yes and no. Reference the text specifically, talk about Evelyn White's ability to craft such an impressive depiction of Walker. How does she do this? Be specific in your analysis.
Post you discussion questions, just 3-5, then annswer someone else's questions and post further questions yourself. Do this back and forth dialogue at least three times between 2/7 and 2/12. Begin reading chapter 13-25.
Don't forget to keep vocabulary logs for the reading and reading logs. Everyone is his or her won, summarizer (ref. Literature Circles)
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Dung Le
9-10am
Jan. 9, 2008
After withdrawing from Spelman, Alice attended Sarah Lawrence College, during her stay there she wrote a story, and within the story she describes the land as being “red”. Jane Cooper, a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence, later confronted Alice. Cooper told Alice that she had the color of the earth wrong, Alice replied, (Alice Walker: a life, page 104) “No, you got it wrong. The land is red where I come from. And that’s the way it’s going to be in the story. Period.”
What was Alice’s intention when she described the land of being “red”?
In the summer of 1965, Alice returned to the South, where she joined a group of civil rights workers registering voters in rural Liberty County, Georgia. Heavily plagued with congregation and with no support from the community, she left the South and went to Africa. As she arrived in Africa, the image of what she thought the “motherland” was supposed to be was greatly contravened.
What were Alice’s observations, did it differ from her own image?
During her visit in Africa, she had a problematic occurrence that could’ve resulted in her death.
What problem did she encounter that threaten her life, did it affect her life, if so what were the effects?
Great questions Dung Le
Response to Ch. 1
When I read the first five chapters of Alice Walker: A life the chapter that stood out to me was chapter one. The first sentence in chapter one says ‘’why you wanna waste $250 getting your sister’s eye fixed? She’s just gonna end up marring a no-good nigger like you. This caught my attention because after reading the first five chapters I realized some of the great things Alice Walker did like becoming the first black women to win a pulizer prize in fiction. When I think about it the $250 wasn’t a waste.
marcus lee
From: Ali Hassan
To: Professor Sabir
Date: 2 February, 2008
Re: Alice Walker
Alice Walker suffered a horrible eye injury, when she was a young girl, because her brothers were playing as cowboys and Indians, and Alice happened to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time, she was shot in the eye with a pallet bullet from a BB gun. This accident changed the way she looked at herself. She thought that she was a beautiful little girl but after her eye was damaged she thought she was the ugliest girl in the planet. When she went to school young boys and girls would make fun of her. Alice was soon sent to live with another family member for her protection; she thought that she was sent away because her family did not love her anymore. Alice brothers were not punished for what they did because she blamed herself for what happened to her eye.
“Why you wanna waste $250 getting your sister’s eye fixed? She’s just gonna end up marrying a no-good nigger like you”. Although life was tough for the Walkers, they could not stand to see Alice Suffer so much. A white doctor who was near by told the family that he could treat the little girls and repair the damaged eye for about $250 up front . For Bill’s (Alice Brother) parents, who were struggling tenant farmers who were barely getting by, they felt the amount was like $250 million.
Bill knew that his parents did not have that kind of money to pay for Alice eye, but Dickie who was Bill’s boss was the only person he knew who had a ready stash of cash; he turned to him for help. Bill could not stand to see his little sister suffer. Bill said “Are you gonna loan me the money or not?” Dickie says he will give him the loan, but when he said yeah he will loan him the money he said it with a grunt and calling Bill a nigger (pg. 4).
Response to Ch. 5
Another chapter that I found interesting was chapter five. Her brother bill talks about how he knew his sister was a special child imbured with an uncommon magic. What I think he was trying to say was how he saw a bright future behind her. I think that she had a special talent talking people into doing things for example like when she convinced the white man who was operating the ferris wheel to let her on with out no money or ticket. I believe this is one of those times it’s not what you say its how you say it
Marcus Lee 9-10am
The Right THING TO DO
After reading the essay about Quida Atkins I learned that she was smart, kind, and was a leader. Quote Martin Luther King said that she said. It can also apply to being tolerant if a person is gay or straight unquote. Quida Atkins had a lot of friends musicians, whites, rich, and gay people. In the essay it talked about who inspired her change and it was her father. He taught her to love being around different people.
Quida Atkins who is now seventy is the only daughter of a former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett SR., a segregationist who sparked an armed insurrection against the federal government. During her younger years she supported her father’s decision because segregation was all she knew. No matter what Quida Atkins supported her father even after lives were lost. As she aged she got wiser and thought it would be fun to go to school with blacks and didn’t think it would be a problem.
Quida Atkins was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 4, 1933. She was born into segregation but she didn’t let that stop her from having black playmates. I say Quida Atkins was a leader because she had courage to teach at a all black inner-city public high school in one of the toughest sections of Jackson, Mississippi and I know some teachers who is afraid to teach at the dominant black high school I went to. I think that shows courage and leadership because she thought it was the right thing to do and didn’t even want something back in return.
After reading this essay about Quida Atkins some of the knowledge I gained from her was how to be a leader, make smart decisions, and care for others even if you don’t know them. Growing up as the youngest of five boys I thought it was easy to dislike others because of their skin color but now I see it’s harder to care for someone you don’t know and it’s the right thing to do because you should always treat people the way you would want to be treated. Now I see how the world will always be a better place if we can just help one another and not dislike one another for any reason.
Marcus Lee 9-10AM
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