The Help (Fragments)

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The Help (fragments)
Literature

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

What do you know
about racism in America?

Slide 2 - Woordweb

  • 1619: ship with 20 captives landed at Point Comfort
  • ushering in the era of American slavery
  • brought from a Dutch ship

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

  • 1661: anti-miscegenation statute
  • Prohibiting marriage between races

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

  • Between 1701-1760 about 180,000 slaves were brought to USA

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

  • 1776: Declaration of Independence
  • USA is 'free' from the Brits
  • "All men are created equal" > a right that did not extend to slaves

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

  • 1808: importing of slaves is banned
  • Slavery is still allowed, domestic slave trade still possible

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

  • 1865: American Civil War
  • Fight for the freedom of slaves
  • North (wanted freedom) vs. south (wanted slavery to continue)

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

  • Jim Crow laws
  • Segregation: forbidden to drink from the sae water fountains, eat at the same restaurants, attend the same school. 
  • Some of these laws lasted until and sometimes well past 1960!

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

  • More examples on page 13 in your reader

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Let's read the text together

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Slide 12 - Link

Let's continue
By answering the questions

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

What is a narrator?

Slide 14 - Woordweb

What type of narrator
is she?

Slide 15 - Woordweb

Answer:
  • A narrator is the person who tells the story.
  • Aibileen is a first-person narrator

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

Do question 2
In pairs / small groups
timer
5:00

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

Answer 2a:
Mae Mobley (MM) & Aibileen (A)
  • A takes care of MM.
  • MM = loved bij A and clings to her

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

Answer 2b:
Mae Mobley (MM) & her mother, Miss Leefolt (ML)
  • ML seems not to care too much about MM
  • ML doesn't know how to take care of ML
  • Having a baby makes ML insecure

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

Answer 2c:
Aibileen (A) & Miss Leefolt (ML)
  • A has no respect for ML (the way she talks)
  • ML is suspicious of the relationship between A and the baby (MM)

Slide 20 - Tekstslide

Let's continue
By reading answering the questions

Slide 21 - Tekstslide

Slide 22 - Link

3. Why is there a problem?

Slide 23 - Woordweb

Answer:
Aibileen hasn't cleaned the toilets yet.

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

4. Why does Hilly still want to use the main bathroom?

Slide 25 - Woordweb

Answer:
The guest bathroom is used by Aibileen.
Remember: segregation!

Slide 26 - Tekstslide

5. What does this passage show about HIlly's position?


Explain your answer.
Group discussion, after that class discussion.

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

Answer
She is the leader: everybody looks to her when determining their position.

Slide 28 - Tekstslide

6. In what way is Miss Skeeter different from the other women?



Class discussion

Slide 29 - Tekstslide

Answer
  • She has her own opinion, regardless of what Miss Hilly says. 
  • She thinks differenlty about blacks than the others.

Slide 30 - Tekstslide

How does the conversation affect Aibileen?

Slide 31 - Woordweb

Answer
  • She is annoyed but also curious.
  • She tries to hear everything that is said.
  • As soon as the initiative comes, she gets sad.

Slide 32 - Tekstslide

8a. What is your first repsonse?

Class discussion

Slide 33 - Tekstslide

8b. What arguments are put forward to make it seem like a reasonable plan?

Slide 34 - Woordweb

Answer
  • You need to protect your children and your help
  • It is better for your health

Slide 35 - Tekstslide

8b. How valid are they?

Slide 36 - Woordweb

Rewrite the initiative in around 40-50 words

You'll get a peek at my answer, but no time to write it down, so just compare!

Slide 37 - Tekstslide

Answer
  • Everybody should install an extra toilet for their black help. 
  • They are people that carry lots of diseases white people can’t fight. 
  • They will bring all those diseases to your house. 
  • So protect your family from this.

Slide 38 - Tekstslide

I think I understand this poem well enough for the test.
Yes
No

Slide 39 - Poll

Continue
If you have answered yes, focus on your week task.

If you have answered no, please let me know what you do not understand (yet).

Slide 40 - Tekstslide