Cameron Cruise
Mr. Nueburger
Eng Comp 101-101
25 January 2013
Story Synopsis
“The Lesson”
A Brief summary of “the lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is that an African American woman named miss Moore moved into a lower class New York City residence where upon she decided to mentor the other children on the block. Miss Moore had a collage degree and was interested in the education of the children in her neighborhood. On one summer day her lesson plan was to teach the kids about money, her lesson plan was to include a trip to Fifth Avenue, where they stopped outside a toy store. She wanted to look through the windows before entering this “high class” toy store to give the children a glance at how the wealth of America is unevenly dispersed. Each child found a particular toy of interest like a microscope or a paperweight. But the toy that captivated everyone’s attention was a sailboat that cost 1,195 dollars, considering that these children had made their own sailboats for under a dollar this was quite a surprise. Finally the group proceeded inside where most of the children felt uncomfortable and didn’t hardly touch or play with any of the toys. Upon the arrival home the group had a discussion on what they learned, and one girl (sugar) came to the conclusion that the toy sailboat costs more than all 6 or 7 of them would consume in groceries in an entire year.
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