The Color Purple

Resources:

• The Color Purple Ebook 

• The Color Purple Audiobook

• Unit Goals for The Color Purple

• Introductory Context

• Active Reading Worksheet

• Dialect Notes and Practice

• Color Symbolism

• Character Web Study Guide

• Discussion Circle Expectations

• Presentation Assessment

Supplemental Readings:

• Rural Georgia Historical Context

• African American Missionaries

• The Scramble For Africa

• Gender Roles

• The Science of Friendship

• Black Women's Friendship

• Lynch Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

Supplemental Poems

• Learning to Read

• Caged Bird

• A Litany For Survival 

• Still I Rise

• I, Too

• The Rhodora

• On Women Born To Be Controlled

• Strange Fruit