Though TJ played a minor role, his character was very important for the overall depiction of life during this period. He wanted the white people to accept him as one of their own and for this, he betrayed Stacey and joined the white boys. Despite t Continue Reading...
Roll Thunder
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 9143, Mildred Taylor was no stranger to racism. Discrimination pervaded everyday life in the segregated south. Almost as soon as Mildred was born, her parents Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie Taylor moved to Continue Reading...
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry -- Hearing the Power of Slave Stories
The need for story telling and the power of memories long past, even the historical past can provide a source of strength for the next generation. This idea is a central theme of the Continue Reading...
Children's Literature Timeline
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: A SELECTIVE TIMELINE
Charles Perrault. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe: Les Contes de ma Mere l'Oie. (Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose.) France.
Jacob and W Continue Reading...
Anniversary Day Trip
The weather starting out on our trip to White mountain was dark and ominous. I remember the two of us joking as we were packing the car that morning before we headed out. It was mid-morning and on a normal day, they sun would be Continue Reading...
Music or Musical Theatre
Like the Rising Sun
Although in conventional times and among younger people jazz music is disparaged as boring 'elevator music', true jazz music is anything but. I reached this conclusion after listening to some excellent c Continue Reading...
" Emecheta uses metaphors, similes and allusions with appropriate timing and tone in this book, and the image of a puppet certainly brings to mind a person being controlled, manipulated, made to comply instantly with any movement of the controlling h Continue Reading...
And call each man by his name and his father's line, show them all respect. Not too proud now.
We should be the ones doing the work.
On our backs, from the day we were born,
It seems that Zeus has piled on the hardships."
With his order clear, Continue Reading...
" As the reader soon discovers, this heart trouble wasn't physical; rather, her trouble was related to personal unhappiness in her marriage. The heart disease as not being a physical condition is once again reinforced at the very end of the story whe Continue Reading...
The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right n Continue Reading...
Classroom
Grade level: 6th and 7th Subject: Literature
For this assignment a Literature Unit on Short stories for a 6th-7th grade combined classroom has been chosen. The purpose of 6th and 7th grade literature is to introduce and study various gen Continue Reading...
Political / Environmental Economics
The Gloucester Crisis: Environmentalists VS Fishermen?
Or: Depletion of Fisheries VS Fishermen Postponing Reality?
When the spectacularly dramatic movie, "The Perfect Storm," became a box office smash a few year Continue Reading...
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is a strange and unsettling story of a young man who travels through a wood overnight and allows his experience to change him forever. There are many themes in this short story, includi Continue Reading...