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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Know Before You Go: Anticipating and Previewing Difficult Texts such as The Bluest Eye

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Support your scholars with these anticipatory questions to go along with The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The objective, rationale, and teacher instructions are clearly explained, followed by an anticipation guide for pages 81-93 and the...
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Bluest Eye Quiz

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Celebrating Women: Toni Morrison

For Teachers 8th - 12th
How authors address issues of their societies is addressed in this very detailed lesson. After researching Toni Morrison and her work, groups create a dramatization based on a scene from one of Morrison’s novels and act it out. Class...
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Activity
International Technology Education Association

Singin' the Black and Blues

For Students 5th - 9th
How does the color of the sky change from blue to reds and oranges to black? An illuminating lesson explains how light travels through different mediums using the sun's light as an example. By examining diagrams and illustrations, pupils...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

'And Maybe I Can Change That Too'

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider their own prejudices and stereotypes. In this social justice lesson, students monitor their own reactions to people who are different from themselves. Students watch a video featuring Toni Morrison that presents a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Ratios

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students solve problems using ratio and proportion. In this math comparison instructional activity, students identify methods used to solve and compare ratio and proportion in the real world. They apply criss cross multiplying to solve...
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: The Bluest Eye (Characters)

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison has some unforgettable characters. Match the descriptions with the characters' names. The score is given upon completion.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Bluest Eye: by Toni Morrison including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: The Bluest Eye Character Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the characters from Toni Morrison's famous novel, The Bluest Eye, in this matching exercise.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Toni Morrison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For teaching the work of Toni Morrison, this site provides lesson plans, activities, and other resources for Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Morrison's other fiction.
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Activity
Luminarium

Luminarium: Anniina's Toni Morrison Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides information and critiques on Morrison's work as well as biographies, bibliographies, and interviews with Toni Morrison.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography on the works of African American writer and 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Toni Morrison. Contains information on the themes and subject matters of her most famous books while also giving some information on...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: The Search for Identity: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Toni Morrison is featured for her ability to illustrate the idiocies of racial stereotyping through her award winning literature. See "Toni Morrison Activities" for related materials.
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Toni Morrison, noted novelist. The entry focuses on the black American experience.