The Bluest Eye May 22, 19

Aim Why is it important that  Maureen mentions the title and plot of the movie in Winter, page 67?
Do Now:

Character List

Pecola Breedlove.

Claudia MacTeer 

Cholly Breedlove 

Pauline (Polly) Breedlove 

Frieda MacTeer 

Mrs. MacTeer

Mr. MacTeer

Henry Washington 

Sammy Breedlove

China, Poland, Miss Marie

Mr. Yacobowski 

Rosemary Villanucci

Maureen Peal

Geraldine

Junior

Soaphead Church

Aunt Jimmy 

Samson Fuller 

Blue Jack

M’Dear

Darlene

It was a false spring day, which, like Maureen, had pierced the shell of a deadening winter. .....Long before seeds were stirring, Frieda and I were scruffing and poking at the earth, swallowing air, drinking rain.... As we emerged from the school with Maureen, we The Bluest Eye began to moult immediately. We put our head scarves in our coat pockets, and our coats on our heads. I was wondering how to maneuver Maureen’s fur muff into a gutter when a commotion in the playground distracted us. A group of boys was circling and holding at bay a victim, Pecola Breedlove. Bay Boy, Woodrow Cain, Buddy Wilson, Junie Bug— like a necklace of semiprecious stones they surrounded her. Heady with the smell of their own musk, thrilled by the easy power of a majority, they gaily harassed her. “Black e mo. Black e mo. Yadaddsleepsnekked. Black e mo black e mo ya dadd sleeps nekked. Black e mo ...” They had extemporized a verse made up of two insults about matters over which the victim had no control: the color of her skin and speculations on the sleeping habits of an adult, wildly fitting in its incoherence. That they themselves were black, or that their own father had similarly relaxed habits was irrelevant. It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth. They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds—cooled—and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. They danced a macabre ballet around the victim, whom, for their own sake, they were prepared to sacrifice to the flaming pit. Black e mo Black e mo Ya daddy sleeps nekked. Stch ta ta stch ta ta stach ta ta ta ta ta

“I just moved here. My name is Maureen Peal. What’s yours?” “Pecola.” “Pecola? Wasn’t that the name of the girl in Imitation of Life?” “I don’t know. What is that?” “The picture show, you know. Where this mulatto girl hates her mother cause she is black and ugly but then cries at the funeral. It was real sad. Everybody cries in it. Claudette Colbert too.” “Oh.” Pecola’s voice was no more than a sigh.


Aim: Why is the title of this chapter written this way? - How does it reveal the central idea of the chapter?

HEREISTHEFAMILYMOTHERFATHER
DICKANDJANETHEYLIVEINTHEGREE 
NANDWHITEHOUSETHEYAREVERYH

Do Now: Write three sentences that uses the word "not"  or "no" and two or more of the five senses and describes the classroom.
Example: The students were not quietly doing their "Do Now."  The classroom did not smell of bacon today.  There were no roses on Teacher's desk this morning.