IN-CLASS CERs on The Color Purple and Background Info.

Objective:
1. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts,
and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and
analysis of content.
2. Demonstrate command of the following writing skills:
a. Crafting a claim that states a clear position and answers a question
b. Including MLA cited evidence that is appropriate to the argument, is NOT
opinion-based and is taken from The Color Purple and your research.
c. Using reasoning that connects the claim and evidence and that summarizes,
adds to or explains the evidence.
Directions:
❏ Write two well-informed paragraphs (2 CERs) that show your understanding of two
different topics (choose from topics in the box below)
❏ surrounding the background information and The Color Purple text.
❏ Prove your claims to be true by using poignant and relevant information (accurately cited
in MLA format) from
❏ The Color Purple (reading up through page 56)
❏ your background research notes.
Family Dynamics
Analyze different examples of families, the ways they interact, how they treat one
another, and different familial relationships.

Female Empowerment
Positivity, sisterhood, support, strength under harsh circumstances.

Female Disempowerment
Negativity, abuse (sexual, verbal, physical)

Masculine Norms/Behavior
What does it mean to “be a man” in this time and place? What is and is not acceptable
behavior? How do men view women?

Ideology on Sex
Celie vs. Shug; male vs. female; what does Celie allude to about her sexual
preference?

Social Injustice Impact

Big picture issues and their impact on clients (within systems), -isms, phobias, rights
and privilege

COMPLETE YOUR WRITING ON THE ATTACHED PAGE.

YELLOW HIGHLIGHTED SECTIONS NEED TO BE CHANGED TO YOUR INFORMATION.

Maverick Kat Kuoy

Fitzgerald

English

1 March, 2021

CER #1

Masuline Norms/Behavior:

Being a “man” in this time revolved around the nature of being physical and dominant. This is

shown throughout the letters Celie rights of her getting beat. Celie was beat because she

“winked at a boy in church.” (pg. 15) This shows how men treat women with demand and

control. Older men especially are more in control with younger women and think talking to

another gender is unacceptable. This was shown when Celie was beat for just winking at a boy.

Men believe that being physical is the only way to make women listen to you. Men viewed

themselves more dominant than women, which is why they view women so low in this time.

The way they behave is also from their size as well. In this time men were also dominant to

other men due to size differences, which makes the other fear one another.

CER #2

Family Dynamics:

Family in this time stuck together and were very close to one another by treating each other

fairly. When asked about family, she responded by saying there were “six boys, six

girls.”(pg.47) Describing the family she said, “All the girls big and strong like me… but all the
girls stick together.” This shows empowerment in the families back then. Having many kids

back in the day must be hard and those siblings grow up being there for each other. In this

family, they rarely got mad at one another nor their parents. To make the other siblings

behave, they would tap each other “on the behind” to make them behave, but not hard enough

to the point where they would get hurt. This shows a type of discipline that is added onto this

family. This family also connects to female empowerment as well due to the comparison

between the six boys and six girls being equally as strong.