Mondeling - Historical points

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson Plan

1. Speaking test review
2. Mondeling - Historical points + setting
3. Topics of conversation - 3
4. Characters

The Help - Historical Setting...

Historical context

- Jackson, Mississippi - 1962 through 1964

- Jim Crow-era laws - enforced racial segregation 'The colour line' - White and black people had separate hospitals, bathrooms, schools, and even graveyards.

- Civil rights movement - integrating the facilities and institutions that were kept separate. Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement.

“You is kind, you is smart. You is important.” 

Aibileen Clark says this to Mae Mobley.

Who is Mae Mobley?

Why?

- women?

- raising the next generation?

Treelore Clark

• Who is/was he?
• Treelore Clark is Aibileen's only son, and he dies at the age of twenty-four due to an accident while working at a lumber mill. Treelore died at his home after being released from the hospital.

• What was his role in the film?

Which 3 topics of conversation...

Which character are you

Aibileen Clark

Minny Jackson

Skeeter

Hilly Holbrook

Celia Foot

Contantine