WEEK 12: THE BLUEST EYE
Preface
Ideal vs. Real
Autumn
Family and Community
What is the "hem of life"?
Why does Claudia "hate white baby dolls"?
"How do you get somebody to love you?"
HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITE
House vs. Home
What is the "only living thing in the Breedloves' house?
HEREISTHEFAMILYMOTHERFATHERDICKANDJANE
"Please make me disappear"
Who defines beauty?
What is ugliness?
What are the "dandelions"?
Winter
Beauty and Worth
Race and Beauty
Contempt and Self-Contempt
How do we handle our hurt: stand up or fold up?
SEETHECATTHECATGOESMEOWMEOW
Who are "They"?
Why are Geraldine and Junior important?
Spring
"Polly"
SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICE
How a Dream Dies
Alienation and Loneliness
Movie Love
SEEFATHERHEISBIGANDSTRONG
How to Build a Monster
Theft of Innocence
"Dangerously Free"
SEETHEDOGGOBOWWOWBOWWOWGOESTHEDOG
Internalization and Self-Loathing
Summer
LOOKLOOKHERECOMESAFRIEND
"the bluest eyes"
WEEKLY MENU
MONDAY
Study Guide: Mama
Autumn: pp 296-314
TUESDAY
Study Guide: Mrs. Breedlove
Autumn: pp 314-331
Homework: Distilled Notes
WEDNESDAY
Due: Distilled Notes
Study Guide: Maureen Peal
Winter: pp 331-344
THURSDAY
Winter: pp 344-353
FRIDAY
No School
WEEKEND
Catch up!
COURSE GUIDE
REVIEWS & STUDY GUIDES
ANALYSIS
SAMPLES
Distilled Notes
Five for Ten (front)
Five for Ten (back)
Conversational Roundtable
