One Crazy Summer Themes Spider Map
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
By Liane Hicks
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is the first book in a trilogy about the Gaither sisters: Delphine, Vonettam, and Fern as they grow up during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. They leave their loving father and grandmother in Brooklyn and travel to Oakland, California to spend a month with the mother they've never known.
Storyboard Description
Identify different themes present in the book One Crazy Summer. Illustrate and describe the themes using evidence from the text.
Storyboard Text
- FAMILY
- RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS
- Justice for AllAll Power to All of the PeopleRemember Li'l BobbyFree Huey
- POWERTO THEPEOPLE!
- ABANDONMENT
- Family is important as the sisters rely on their love for each other. They have loving relationships with their father and grandmother but have always longed for their mother. Delphine plays the motherly role and helps raise her sisters.
- Racism and the civil rights movement are a central theme. There are micro-aggressions against the girls. At the Black Panther-run summer camp, they learn about to the many injustices faced by Black people. Nzila is arrested for writing poetry about racial injustice. Delphine remembers how her father was accosted by a white police officer on a drive.
- The Gaither sisters were abandoned by their mother when they were very small and only Delphine has any memories of her. This is the first time they are seeing her in 7 years. While they have been lovingly cared for by their father and grandmother, all three have been deeply affected by their mother's abandonment.
- THEMES IN ONE CRAZY SUMMER
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