Sweat/Ragtime/Bedford

 "Sweat"

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Video "Spunk":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOG_fHaNb7M 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ioCkW5U14

Analysis of Sweat:

http://voices.yahoo.com/zora-neale-hurstons-sweat-character-metaphor-in-428737.html?cat=38 

http://www.articlemyriad.com/analysis-summary-sweat-hurston/

"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"

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CONTENT

1. What did the third floor of Walker's new grade school formerly house?
2. Describe the relationship between Miss Mey and the author's mother.
3. Who is Miss Yarborough?
4. How does the author feel about being on the cover of a magazine at the time of the writing of this piece?
5. Describe the author's relationship to her poetry.
6. How does Rebecca react upon viewing the author's eye? How does Walker react to her reaction?
7. What changes in Walker's life when she becomes eight years old?

STRATEGY AND STYLE

1. Explain this essay's title in light of the author's view of beauty and self-identity. How effective do you find it? Explain.
2. Discuss "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" as a comparison/contrast essay. Support your answer with specifics from the text.
3. Why do you think Walker repeatedly puts quotation marks around the word accident? How can you relate this punctuation to her feelings about the event?
4. In the last paragraphs the author departs from her mainly chronological approach. What incidents does she recount? What would she lose if she presented these things chronologically?
5. In paragraph forty-three, Walker includes one of her poems. How else could she have conveyed this information? What does the poem provide besides information? How would the essay change without it?