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Almeydita

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jones, Gayl. Palmares. Beacon Press, 2021. Hardcover.

· In “Almeyda, Mexia,” Mexia is a half-Black and half-Indian woman who is the housekeeper for Father Tollinare, a Franciscan priest.

· Some say she is his concubine.

· Mexia never speaks.

· Almeyda is seven years old and a slave.

· Father Tollinare teaches her and other children how to read and write.

· Almeyda lives with her mother and grandmother.

· She has vivid dreams, including one where she dreams she is Mexia and washes the priest’s hands and the priest asks her why she does not speak.

· In “The Place of the Men and the Women,” Almeyda goes with her grandmother to gather palm leaves.

· Almeyda is to see Pao Joaquim the next day, and her grandmother tells her when she goes she must remain silent and he will give her...

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