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Year 12: ‘The Color Purple’ Home Learning: Part 2, Exercises of Performing Arts

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Year 12: ‘The Color Purple’ Home
Learning: Part 2
Year 12, here is your second booklet for ‘The Color Purple’.
Please email me your work for feedback; you can either type up the answers or
take a photograph of your work to send to me – my email address is on the
website.
Miss Pedrick
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Year 12: ‘The Color Purple’ Home

Learning: Part 2

Year 12, here is your second booklet for ‘The Color Purple’. Please email me your work for feedback; you can either type up the answers or take a photograph of your work to send to me – my email address is on the website. Miss Pedrick

Task 1: Read letters 59 – 63.

  • Annotate your text as you read and write a bullet point summary of each of the letters.
  • Next, create characterisation profiles for Celie, Nettie and Shug; use the questions on page 87 of the ‘Revision Express’ textbook to help you (under the heading ‘Analysing Characters’).
  • In each of the profiles, choose 5 key quotations for each of the characters. Explain what the authorial intention is of each quotation and how the reader would react to the character at this point. Also, ensure you explain how the quotations you have chosen shows change or progression of the character through the novel.

Task 4 Read letters 79 and 80

  • Annotate your text as you read and write a bullet point summary for both of the letters
  • Review any new character information you have gathered and add this to your character profiles as appropriate.
  • Next, you are going to answer the question: ‘Re-read letter 79. How are men and the patriarchal society portrayed in this letter?’ Firstly, annotate your text to highlight and consider any quotations or points that can be included in your response to this question. Then, spend 20 minutes writing a timed response to this question. Remember this is a ‘section (i)’ question, so only needs to have AO1 and AO2 addressed within it.
  • When you have written your response, using a green pen (or alternative colour if typing it up) highlight where you have addressed AO1 and AO2 in your response.
  • Please email me this answer – either typed up or a photograph or what you have written. Task 5 Read letters 81 – 85
  • Annotate your text as you read and write a bullet point summary of each letter for your revision notes.
  • Note down any new information you learn from these letters about the characters for which you have created profiles.
  • Next, read through pages 22 and 23 of the ‘Revision Express’ revision guide. These pages are usually used for Component 3: Spoken Word, but the concepts can also be applied to ‘The Color Purple’ and you may find the terminology useful when discussing the text.
  • In light of the information you have read on these pages, apply this to the text in relation to the letters sent between Nettie and Celie.
  • Why does Walker choose to use the different sentence structures/orthography for Celie and Nettie? What is it suggesting about the two different characters?
  • Also, what effective did Walker wish to achieve on the reader by using these different styles close together? Does she achieve this effect? How does the reader feel towards the two characters as they are compared through their letters?
  • Create a timeline, and plot the letters and significant events of the novel along it.
  • You will have to work out some of the times between the letters from the information that is within them; plot all the events along the timeline so you can visually see the passing of time along through the text and where there are gaps in Celie’s writing.
  • Where there are gaps, consider why this might be. Why might there be significant gaps in what Celie has written – why might she have chosen to skim over some life events without giving them space and time for the details? Task 8
  • There are several themes which run through the text, including:
    1. Slavery
    2. Feminism
    3. Men and patriarchy
    4. Education and literacy
    5. African-American culture
    6. Business
    7. Violence
    8. Religion
  • Similar to your character profiles, document each of these themes and how they develop and progress across the novel.
  • You can do this in whatever format you wish; you might want to bullet point your ideas, create a diagram, draw a table – whatever you think would be most useful in helping you to remember the key themes and ideas throughout the text.
  • For each theme, you need to include 8-10 key quotations that demonstrate where this is seen within the text. The quotations should be chosen from across the text and show the progress and development of each theme.
  • Finally, to consolidate your theme profiles, you should choose one ‘leading’ quotation that, you feel, sums up the theme and your findings across the text.

Task 9

  • Turn back to the very beginning of the text and read Walker’s letter to the reader.
  • In your own words, summarise what Walker’s intention through the novel was.
  • Does Walker feel as though she has achieved this intention? And does she feel the message is still relevant today?
  • Research Hardy’s works that Walker references in her letter – ‘Tess of the d’Ubervilles’ and ‘Jude the Obscure’. In her letter, Walker states that ‘there are echoes of how black folk in the South constructed sentences during and after enslavement that are in Hardy’s work depicting British working-class people before and during the 19th^ century.’ From your research of these texts, and your knowledge of ‘The Color Purple’, how far do you agree with these comments?
  • Find, and record, 5 to 10 quotations which demonstrate/link to your opinion and be ready to justify why these quotations show your agreement or disagreement. Task 10
  • Complete an assessment on ‘The Color Purple’. Now that you have read the entire text, you can complete the assessment as it is designed to be completed, without being restricted on the content you can use.
  • Please complete this under timed conditions – you have 1 hour on Component 1B.
  • Remember – 20 minutes on part (i) and 40 minutes on part (ii). (i) Remind yourself of letter 2 from “Dear God,” to “if he can.” By focusing closely on literary and linguistic techniques, analyse how Walker presents religion within this extract. [20] (ii) Discuss the presentation and significance of religion in the novel as a whole. [40]
  • When you have completed this, please email it to me so I can give you feedback; either as a word document or take a photograph of your work so that I can read it.