The Color Purple Quiz

Have you heard of the QAR strategy? If your class is reading The Color Purple, provide them with this two-page worksheet to get them thinking. With the strategy, readers are introduced to four types of questions (right there, think and...

Learners can chart what they know, what they would like to know, how they plan to learn, and what they have learned from Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Using questions about women's rights, kids study the themes of the novel...

Gabrielle Union discusses the role Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, plays in her life. She stresses the importance of readers being able to find reflections of themselves in literature.

A clip from the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth features Walker discussing her writing process and why she chose to write The Color Purple as an epistolary novel. The resource is part of PBS' American Masters...

Alice Walker chose to write "The Color Purple" as a series of letters in the spoken vernacular of the characters. This video [4:12] from Alice Walker: "Beauty in Truth" explores the significance of Walker's decision to use this form and...

In this literature instructional activity, students respond to 12 short answer and essay questions about Walker's The Color Purple. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

This is an online study guide for the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

Celie is an African American woman living in Georgia in the early 20th century. She suffers decades of abuse as she struggles to find love and friendship in her life. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "The Color...

This is a collection of three video lessons about Alice Walker and her works from the PBS American Masters Collection.

In this video (2:20, Alice Walker discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's ability to portray black people as "undiminished human beings" shaped her as a writer. This is evident in The Color Purple which, like Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were...