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Unit 4: Everyday Use
---for your grandma
Alice Walker
Ⅰ. Objectives:
Lesson Four "Everyday Use for Your Grandma" is a famous short story by Alice Walker, an eminent American black woman writer. After learning the text, the students are to know the historical and cultural background of black literature and to understand the general characteristics of the short story. The major purpose is to raise the students' ability to appreciate Literature. The focus of this lesson is on analysis of the characters, the theme and the methods the author to develop the theme.
Ⅱ. Background:
About the author:
Alice Walker (1944- ) is a famous American black woman novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in a poor rural family in Eatonton, Georgia, Her parents made a living by growing cottons. Alice is the youngest of the eight children in the family. She is a lover of literature, especially fond of novels and poems. When she went to Sarah Lawrence College in the early 1960s, the civil rights movement was in full swing. She was actively involved in the movement. After her graduation, Alice became a teacher of creative writing and black literature, lecturing in several colleges of eastern coast, such as Jackson State College, Yale and University of California and so on.
Alice Walker's writing career began with the publication of a volume of poetry in 1968, which was followed by a number of novels, short stories, critical essays and more poetry. She has now become one of the most prominent writers in American Literature and is regarded as a most forceful representative of women literature and black literature. Alice is expert at portraying people in rural areas and she often takes her hometown as the background in her writing. She is particularly interested in examining relationship among the blacks themselves, and concerns more about the life of black women.
2. Alice Walker's Literature achievement:
Volumes of poetry: Once (1968), Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems (1973)

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