United
We Read
The Year the Colored Sisters Came
to Town
By Jacqueline Guidry
Lesson 4
The America
of The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town, is a different place than the culture in which you
are presently living. To get a better
feel for the setting of this novel, we will research topics that help to create
this setting, Louisiana in the
1950’s. You can find reference books in
your school and public library for this project. You may also check on the Internet for some
of these topics. You will be asked to
preface (begin) each with a bibliographic citation. This is what researchers do to give credit to
their sources.
- What
television shows would Vivien Leigh and Mavis have watched? Marshal Dillon’s    Gunsmoke
was mentioned in chapter 8, “Thursday Queensâ€