Miss Tate is Sunny and Orlu’s English teacher. She’s a white woman and, until the novel begins, she’s Sunny’s favorite teacher. This changes, though, when Miss Tate becomes so enraged with her class’s poor writing in English that she tells Sunny—who scored high on the latest essay—to whip each of her classmates on the hand.
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Miss Tate Character Timeline in Akata Witch
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Chapter 1
...class, when Sunny is the only student to get a high score on an essay. Miss Tate , the teacher, shouts that the essay was supposed to be easy and fun. She...
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...seems nervous. Sunny starts to cry and throws the switch to the ground. At this, Miss Tate pushes Sunny aside and hits each student on the hand herself. As they return to...
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