Senior Inquiry 14-15

Paper due: Tuesday Jan. 13th. Book MUST be returned to the library by Jan. 27th

3-5 pages

Prompt: How does oppression play out in The Bluest Eye? Identify two types of oppression and trace their development and interaction through the text. Make sure your theme is a statement about your topic, not just a general topic (Ex. It’s not enough to say that society is racist and classist, you will need to make a statement about the interaction and effect of the racism and classism on specific characters and/or by specific social institutions). Be sure to include your thoughts about the different types of oppression at play in the story (race, class, gender, etc) and also about the intersectionality of those types of oppression.

Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5Determine how two types of oppression play out in the text and analyze their development, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account of the experience of an oppressed member of society

Scale:

4-I can do everything in 3, plus I can…

-apply more than two types of oppression from the text to give a more complex overview of the novel

-I can use many vocabulary terms from Is Everyone Really Equal to explain my thesis

3-I can analyze the development of two types of oppression through of The Bluest Eye

-I can create a thesis statement that clearly articulates the overall effect of the two (or more) types of oppression.

-I can chart the development of each type of oppression through the course of the novel and explain the effect on the characters

-I can describe and analyze how the themes interact and build on each other.

2-I can identify two themes in The Bluest Eye and explain how they are developed

-I can create a thesis relating to two types of oppression (race, gender or class).

-I can chart the development of the two types of oppression in the text

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1- I can do parts of 2