Everything you need to understand or teach The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley.
This story belongs in the group of Southern Gothic comedies for which Henley is best known. Its heroine, Carnelle, is an irrepressible young woman who thinks that winning the local beauty contest will restore her soiled reputation and make her somebody in her small Mississippi community. The family and friends who help her along the way are a dysfunctional bunch who tackle life in their own peculiar ways. There is a former beauty...
The Miss Firecracker Contest Lesson Plans contain 86 pages of teaching material, including:
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