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If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
To identify and analyze themes of a short story.
To consider the text in its historical and cultural context.
To make connections between the text and students’ lives.
To complete analytical writing about the literary elements of the text.
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The Question and Answer section for Sweetness is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Sweetness was very dissapointed. “Sweetness” opens with Sweetness saying, “It’s not my fault. So you can't blame me.” Sweetness explains that her daughter Lula Ann was born with skin so dark that Sweetness was frightened. Sweetness comments that...
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Colorism is discrimination occurring among people of the same ethnic or racial group against people with a dark skin tone. It is the central theme in "Sweetness." As a "high yellow" black woman who is accustomed to the privileges her light skin...
