4-Girl

Costa Questions: (Issi) 1) What is the first thing "she" is told do? 2) How do you think "girl" feels being told all of this? 3) Why do you think this person is telling "her" all of this? (Danielle) 1. What don't you sing in Sunday school? 2. Infer who this "girl" is? 3. What is this girls name? (Raven) 1. What should you do to fish overnight before you cook it? 2. Using one word, describe how the "girl" feels being constantly told what to do and how to live. 3. Using this story as a guide, what does the character, "girl", look like in your mind?

Image Finder: (Issi) The story speaks of growing [|okra] (which is used in gumbo, stews, and soups)

The story talks of putting bright clothes out of the [|clothesline].

The story refers to squeezing bread to make sure it's [|fresh]

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The story says to make sure the cotton shirt doesn't have gum on [|it].

The story refers to how to make bread [|pudding].

Character Tracker: (Danielle) This story didn't exactly have a named main character. Or any characters for that matter. But based off of what I read, I picked what showed the "girl's" personality. "Girl": Knowledgeable- she seemed to know a lot about what/what not to do. (i.e; "this is how you set the table for important guests") Bossy- She was telling you what to do and what not to do. Understanding- For almost everything she said not to do, she said why you shouldn't do it. Therefore, she understands why you shouldn't. Fearful- She was careful with her attire because she was scared she would look like a "slut".

Extender: (Raven) I feel like this story relates to the movie __Mean Girls__. The main character was busy doing everything everyone else told her to do so she would be percieved as something she's not. She didn't want to be viewed as trashy and she was everyone elses' puppet. At the end of the story, the author says what if the baker doesn't let the girl near the food so there's no use in knowing what to do with the bread. In the movie, no matter what the main character did trying to obey everyone elses' wishes, she would never be accepted or "allowed" to be what others wanted to make her. This story also relates to the song, Don't Let Me Get Me. (By Pink) In this song she explains that she is never accepted by society and she tries doing everything everyone instructs her to do. She never wants to be percieved as a "slut" like this girl in this story. No matter how hard she tried, it was never good enough. When I read this story, I thought of the movie, __White Orleander__. The main character, Kirsten Dunst, in this movie was tossed around foster homes. In each home she had different jobs and different things to obey by. She was really trying to find herself throughout the whole movie. She was looked at as a slut, but that is what she was afraid of. It got to the point where she didn't care what anyone else thought after all. She figured it didn't matter anymore how she wanted to be looked at by others, she just did what she had to do.