Page of Illumination-Bronx Final Presentations Create a PowerPoint presentation on your character from Bronx Masquerade. Your presentation must include: – Key words that help represent the big ideas of the book that relate to your character: (love, hate, greed, power, jealousy, confusion, frustration, etc) – Find images or words that represent the character physically, emotionally, and mentally. What does your character look like, act like, think about and how does he/she feel? One quote needed!!!! – Find images or words that describe the conflicts your character feels and is involved in—SO what problems does your character have? How does he/she solve those problems? How does he/she deal with these problems? – Names and information of characters that affect your character One quote needed!!!! – Put together your reasons, quotes and explanations One quote needed!!!!

Tanisha Scott! By Jill Brooks

Key words Greed Jealousy Frustration Family Rape Blood Ghetto Slavery

What does Tanisha look like, act like, and think about? “Dressing down in t-shirts and baggy pants, with no make-up.” (P. 74). “I chopped all my hair off last year.” (P. 75). “They hate me for it and they hate my skin. I can’t do anything about my skin, okay, but my hair I can fix.” “I even thought about getting brown contact lenses once to cover up my green eyes,” (P. 76). MY THOUGHTS: I think Tanisha is made fun of a lot because she doesn’t fit in with a specific skin color group. She has very nice hair that other girls are jealous of and so she cuts it off to stop girls from being so mean to her. I

Problems Tanisha has and how does she deal with them? “I’m so sick of people making a big deal over my ‘good hair.” (P. 74). “I washed it in detergent to kink it up so I could have an Afro like my cousins.” (P. 75). “the only difference between my color and there is that the slave master who owned my family raped my great-great-grandma instead of theirs.” (P. 78). “Them’s my girls. They don’t care what I look like.” (P.78) MY THOUGHTS: Tanisha’s major problem is that she doesn’t look like one race and the other kids don’t like her based on her looks. She has found friends in Diondra and Janelle who know why she has such light skin.

What others think of Tanisha “Carmel Cutie” (P. 74). “I sure wish I had good hair like yours.” (P. 74). “I wish I was light like you,” (Pp ) “Here come Miss High Yella, thinkin’ she all that, with her so- called ‘good hair,’” (p. 75). “Come here pretty mama,” (P. 76). My thoughts: I think others only judge Tanisha on her outward appearance. The girls especially don’t like her because she is pretty, and the boys just see her as a hot girl. I think that as others begin to learn about her they will see that she isn’t just pretty on the outside, but she is pretty on the inside as well.