1. “Everyday Use”
Alice Walker

2. Vocabulary to Define
Tottering
Sidle
Organdy
Furtive
Doctrines

3. Alice Walker Author, poet, feminist, activist
Best known for The Color Purple (1982)
Simple roots in Georgia living under Jim Crow laws
Landlords – “no need for education”
Parents resisted and helped her attend college

4. Alice Walker
Accidentally wounded in right eye by BB gun – permanently blinded
Became self-conscious and introverted – felt like outcast
Solace in literature
“[Allowed her] really to see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out"

5. As you read… For Mama, Dee, and Maggie:
Highlight/underline their thoughts, words, actions, descriptions
Consider what inferences we can begin making about each of them