Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird - Character Traits
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird by Toni Cade Bambara
Lesson Plans by Rebecca Ray
“Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” is a short story about the narrator and her family's life in the deep south. The family must deal with many changes that arise after two men with cameras invade their privacy to make a documentary. Engage students with premade activities and lessons from Storyboard That!
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Storyboard Description
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird Characters activity
Storyboard Text
- MAIN CHARACTERS
- GRANNY
- GRANDDADDY
- TEXT EVIDENCE
- STRICTPROUDINTELLIGENT
- “Good mornin,” Granny cut him off. And smiled that smile...“I don’t know about the thing, the it, and the stuff,” said Granny, still talkin with her eyebrows. “Just people here is what I tend to consider.”...“I do indeed,” said Granny with no smile.
- STOICRESPECTEDSTRONG
- “They didn’t know what to do. But like Cathy say, folks can’t stand Grandaddy tall and silent and like a king. They can’t neither. The smile the men smilin is pullin the mouth back and showin the teeth. Lookin like the wolf man, both of them. Then Granddaddy holds his hand out—this huge hand I used to sit in when I was a baby and he’d carry me through the house to my mother like I was a gift on a tray. Like he used to on the trains. They called the other men just waiters. But they spoke of Granddaddy separate and said, The Waiter. And said he had engines in his feet and motors in his hands and couldn’t no train throw him off and couldn’t nobody turn him around. They were big enough for motors, his hands were. He held that one hand out all still and it gettin to be not at all a hand but a person in itself.”
- STOICRESPECTEDSTRONG
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