Girl by Jamaica Kincaid PPT with discussion questions.

1. How do you express and resolve
personal conflicts?
UNIT 1

2. How do you express and resolve personal
conflicts?

3. Standing Up for One’s Unique
Qualities
LESSON 2

4. Who You Are

5. 1.What did you feel after watching the music video?
2.What lines from the song do you find most
interesting? Why?
3.What does the song want you to realize or to do?
What is its message?
4.How will you relate the message of the song to your
life today?
Questions

6. Open your books on page 42.
Girl

7. Jamaica Kincaid

8. Kincaid’s use of semicolons to separate the
mother’s advice and commands creates a prose
poem that vividly captures the daughter’s conflicting
feelings for her mother. A prose poem is one that lacks
rhyme, lines, and the traditional form of poetry as well
as the narrative structure of conventional fiction.
Prose Poem

9. 1. What are the things that the
girl should and should not do
according to the mother?
Girl

10. 2. How will you describe the
mother?
Girl

11. 3. Why do you think the mother
does not want the girl to sing
benna in Sunday school? What
does it mean?
Girl

12. 4. What was the feeling of the girl
when she replied to her mother,
“but I don’t sing benna on Sundays
at all and never in Sunday school”?
Girl

13. 5.
5.
5.What do you think was the feeling
of the girl with all commands given
to her?
Girl

14. 6. What was the girl thinking when
she asked her mother, “but what if
the baker won’t let me feel the
bread?”
Girl

15. 5.
7. What could the act of forbidding
the girl squeeze the bread mean?
Girl

16. 5.
8. How does domesticity discuss in
the poem? Cite some lines to
support your answer.
Girl

17. 9. How was mother-daughter
relationship shown in the poem?
Justify your answer.
Girl

18. 5.
10. How are women viewed in their
society? Cite some lines from the
poem to justify answer.
Girl

19. 5.
11. What are the cultural
implications demonstrated by
mother? Cite some lines from the
poem to justify your answer.
Girl

20. 5.
12. How was gender roles discussed
in the poem? Cite some lines from
the poem to prove your answer.
Girl

21. 5.
13. What is the theme of the story?
Explain your answer.
Girl

22. 5.
Authors set the tone and mood in
literary piece feels about an idea, event, or
another person can be quickly determined
through his/her gestures and facial
expressions, as well as in the tone of voice
used.
Tone and Mood

23. Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing (the
characters, the situation) and the readers. A writer’s tone is
often influenced by his/her purpose in writing. It is greatly
affected by the setting of the story, choice of vocabulary, and
other significant details in the narrative. A work of writing can
have more than one tone. An example of tone could be both
serious and humorous.
Tone

24. Mood, on the other hand, is the feeling that the reader
gets while reading a story. This could be happiness, sadness,
anger, suspicion, loneliness, or even excitement. Mood is also
referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates
an emotional situation that surrounds the readers. Mood is
developed in a literary piece through setting, theme, tone,
and diction.
Mood