The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

The Color Purple Lesson Plans

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The Color Purple Lesson Plan (Teacher's Pet Publications)

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The Color Purple Puzzle Pack (Teacher's Pet Publications)

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The Color Purple Teaching Unit (Prestwick House)

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Related Lessons/Documents

The Color Purple Fever Chart

Chart how "hot" or "cold" a character is throughout the novel. Comes with directions and a sample from Hamlet. More »

Comparison of Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple

Discussion questions guiding students to compare Alice Walker's The Color Purple to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God More »

AP UNIT: "WALKERS: TEXAS RANGERS” (9 weeks) “A STUDY IN STYLE: WALKER GIBSON AND ALICE WALKER”

MATERIALS: The Color Purple; “Everyday Use”; “Women” (poem); Trudier Harris’ “The Myth of the American Dream”; Talcott’s “Gender Roles”; Bessie Smith “Preaching the Blues”, Lightning Hopkins’ “Mojo Hand” and other... More »

Color Purple Unit Test

A short answer/essay test based on the reading of The Color Purple, "Everyday Use," Cinderella myths, essays about gender roles, and literary criticsm. Could also be used for long-paper essay topics. More »

The Color Purple Pop Quiz

This is not your typical quiz! I use this after the first 50-60 pages or so of the novel. More »

Color Purple Christian Themes and Marked Women

Focuses on the Christian and feminist themes of the novel. Uses Deborah Tannen's essay, "There is No Unmarked Woman." More »

Color Words: Black and Purple

Activity pages that direct children to use the colors black and purple and to follow directions More »

The Color Purple Teaching Unit

The Color Purple: Essay and Short Answer Questions

I assign this book to read over ever fall break or spring break, and I give these essay questions (some 1-2 page responses, some paragraph-length responses) as an assignment to be turned in the first day back. More »

Color the Picture: Yellow/Purple/Orange

Presented in both Spanish and English, this activity directs students to color circles yellow, rectangles purple, and triangles orange and then finish the picture of a strange girl. More »

The Color Purple and Gender Roles

Pre or post reading guide for discussion of gender roles. Come with research from Talcott on gender roles in marriage. More »

Color/Cut/Paste: Clown Face

Presented in both Spanish and English, this activity directs students to color pieces for a clown's face (red, orange, purple), cut out the parts, and paste them onto another page as the model demonstrates. More »

The Color Purple Lesson Plan

The Color Purple Puzzle Pack

Descriptive Quilt

Students will use colored pencils to color in the spaces with proper adjectives purple, indefinite adjectives yellow, possessive adjectives red, demonstrative adjectives green, common adjectives blue, and adverbs orange. More »

Everyday Use Standardized Test Prep

This is a highly anthologized story by Alice Walker. These questions are formatted like the Mississippi English II Subject Area Test. More »

Painting

(Level 2 Marie Clay Reading Recovery) This reproducible minibook is about a kitten who uses red paint and blue paint but ends up with a purple color. Students may read the story independently, share at home with family, and build their own library... More »

Readiness Skills Series 1: Colors (Enhanced eBook)

Kids get plenty of hands-on practice reading, t-r-a-c-i-n-g, and writing color words such as yellow, blue, orange, and purple. Students then color a variety of illustrations their "appropriate" colors. Pictures include bananas, stop signs, grass,... More »

Quiz: The Devil and Tom Walker

A quick, short-answer reading-check quiz. More »

Making a Purple Pie (Separation of Sounds)

A simple unit in which students isolate phonemes in a chant about purple pie. Includes the chant, activities for each day of the week, and a reproducible purple pie pattern. More »