Blog 21: Making Connections

For the past two days, your class has viewed the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings film and responded to teacher-constructed questions during your viewing; all participating students received credit for these worksheets.

Now it is your turn to develop questions and make connections between the film and book! With a partner or individually, post five questions you realized you had about Marguerite's story from viewing the film--a question can be formed from something you were wondering about. After you have developed your questions, find the answers in the book! Challenge: Cite quotations to support your answers. Include page number.

Ex. 1. Q: Why does Uncle Willie walk with a limp and what's with his stutter?

A: Uncle Willie's limp and stutter is due to a childhood accident that he had.

2. Q:Why are white people looking for Uncle Willie and want to kill him?

A:The people are looking for Uncle Willie because there is a black man who raped a white woman that looks like Willie.

3. Q: Why does Marguerite not like her father Bailey Sr.?

A: Marguerite does not like him because she wants to be back in Stamps with Momma and Uncle Willie. She feels she was deprived of them from Bailey Sr.

4. Q: Who was the man that was found dead that Bailey saw?

A: The man that Bailey saw killed was black man who was most likely murdered.

5. Q: Why did Momma sing when the white girls were taunting her?

A: She sang because she was just ignoring them, because if she would fight back she could be killed by some white people.

Blog 20

1. The Great Depression impacted the black community because they were already struggling. Now, it has just gotten much worse.

2. The Great Depression changed the community a lot because now everyone is struggling with money.

3. This did alter their view of life because they were looking for jobs before the depression. Now since the white people are now looking for jobs, the black community is the back end.

4. They were worse than the white community because it would be even harder now for them to earn money.

5. The blacks would recover quicker only because they have been in this situation before, the whites have not.

Blog 19

During our class today, many facts were shared about Maya Angelou: her life, time period, and overall message of her works. Additionally, a definition of racism was shared as well as past and present instances of racism in United States society.

For each category, share one fact you learned from the informative groups' presentations today:

1: Time Period: African-American Experience in U.S., 1930s & 1940s

2: Maya Angelou: Biography

3: Racism: What is it? How has it occurred in the U.S.?

4: Maya Angelou: Works & Publications

5: Racism: Where does it still exist in the U.S.?

One fact should be shared for each category. Five facts should be in complete sentences. Feel free to share more than one fact that caught your attention. If you were absent today, Tues., 2.03.10, research this information on your own to complete this blog posting.

1. During the 1930's and 1940's, African Americans could not vote, used separate bathrooms and water fountains, and had to go through the back door of places. Segregation

2. When Maya Angelou was eight years old, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Also, Maya's real name is Marguerite but she calls herself may because her brother called her that.

3. Racism is the judgment of another race or religion, thinking one's own is more superior. In the United States, the African Americans were oppressed.

4. Maya Angelou had many different poems, such as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Phenomenal Women".

5. Racism in the US still exists everywhere, regardless of people meaning to be racist or doing it for fun.