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Stories of the South
For this unit we will be exploring the South by reading short stories, poems, and watching videos. By the end of our study we hope to gain a better understanding of what it means to grow up in the South. Additionally, we will be exploring the question: What does it mean to be a Southerner?

Our main text of study will be //A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Do// by Mary Jane Ryals. However we will explore the writings of other authors.

Georgia Authors
Note: If your author is not on this list, feel free to add it. Click on the last author listed, click ENTER, type the name of the new author, and turn it into a link. Also, just to make clear, type your name somewhere on your posting so Mr.T knows who its from.
 * David Bottoms
 * Judson Mitcham
 * Harry Crews
 * Carson McCullers
 * Alice Walker
 * Conrad Aiken (2nd block)>
 * Conrad Aiken (3rd block)
 * Sydney Lanier
 * Erskine Caldwell
 * Pat Conroy
 * Flannery O'Connor
 * Jean Toomer
 * Eugenia Price
 * Margaret Mitchell
 * Michael Thurmond
 * Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
 * Joel Chandler Harris
 * W.E.B. Dubois
 * Celestine Sibley
 * Melissa Fay Greene
 * Jimmy Carter
 * Henry W. Grady
 * Terry Kay
 * John O. Killens
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Sidney Lanier
 * Caroline Miller
 * Ralph McGill
 * Ferrol Sams
 * Anne Rivers Siddons
 * Lillian Smith
 * John Stone
 * Frank Yerby
 * Ossie Davis

Novels

 * Sabbath Creek**
 * Characterization - Lewis, Charlene, and Truman Stroud
 * Foreshadowing and Speculations
 * What is Chapter 10 about?
 * Truman Stroud - a product of his time?
 * Eugene Talmadge and Truman Stroud


 * On Jordan's Stormy Banks**
 * Assignment Sheet

**Short Stories**

 * At the Other End of No Where
 * Pig on a Stick
 * Saturday Street
 * A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Do
 * Sheer Curtains Going Down
 * Bring Buffalo Punch
 * One Forty Four
 * Where the Shadows Tangle and Snare and Sing
 * Right Past the Party
 * Two Kinda Fools
 * Lobsterboy and the Televangelist

> > **WHO ARE WE Poems** > > **Life Stories** > (post your stories and interviews here) > > > > “Stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories it was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked the right way and the way that was not so right.” > -Harry Crews (aka melted skin guy) - the pig boiler story. > > > > > > > > > > > **Last Year's Work** > (because it contains things that could prove to be very helpful) > **Pig on a Stick**
 * Southern Poetry**
 * A. R. Ammons - Nelly Myers
 * Dabney Stuart - The Soup Jar, Mining in Killdeer Alley
 * Alice Walker - Burial
 * James Dickey - Cherrylog Road
 * David Bottoms - Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, Under the Vulture-Tree
 * John Crowe Ransom - Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
 * William Mills - Southern Vortex, The Exclusion Principal
 * Characters
 * Themes
 * Plot
 * Setting
 * Literary Devices
 * Vocabulary
 * Quotations
 * Reading Responses> >
 * At the Other End of Nowhere**
 * Characters
 * Plot
 * Setting
 * "Broil and Growl"
 * "I do not know, because I do not remember"
 * "Mama's sea apple green shoes"
 * Magic and mystery within storytelling
 * "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
 * Listen to the songs


 * Location, Location, Location**
 * My South - 4th Block
 * My South - 5th Block