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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Alice Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on African American author Alice Walker is provided along with an extensive bibliography.
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Curated OER

Writer Alice Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Leaving, 1960, Making of African American Identity: V. 3,

For Students 9th - 10th
This exercise examines black migration from the South in the 1960's through the perspective of Alice Walker's "Roselily." A PDF accompanies this resource, reviewing the deeper meaning behind a passage from this text.
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Curated OER

Alice Walker

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Alice Walker.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Everyday Use

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Curated OER

Writer Alice Walker. Credit: Noah Berger Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
Where does artistic inspiration come from? A series on NPR about the influence of artists on other artists helps to answer the question. Demonstrates that inspiration and innovation often flow from an intense appreciation of the work of...
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Eudora Welty (B. 1909)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of online materials to help teachers plan classroom materials and activities on Welty's writing to accompany the Heath Anthology of American Literature, provides information about the major themes of Welty's works, her...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Epistolary Narration

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on epistolary narration, revealing a story through letters, documents, or diaries. It defines the term, explains what to look for to identify them, gives the two perspectives, and offers literary examples: C.S....
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Curated OER

Writer Zora Neale Hurston, Pictured in Florida in 1935.

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
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Curated OER

Book Jacket for 'Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart'

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Contemporary Prose: Prose Choices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers a list of comtemporary nine novels and two plays from which students will select one to read and analyze. A short synopsis is provided for each work.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to American Literature Postmodernism, after WWII an age of rapid development in science and technology. It discusses the characteristics of Postmodernism and lists some of the authors and their new ideas....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Active Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on active listening including what it is and how to become an active listener; a slide show provides the five basic elements of listening. It also offers a video of Alice Walker reading Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Color Purple

For Students 9th - 10th
The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. This site does an excellent job of analysing the characters, the themes and important quotations from the book.

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