10thth
Grade Week 13 and 14
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Date
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Assignment
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Monday
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11/2
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Review
Driving Questions and Study Guide Questions
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Class
work
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Study Guides Finished
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Homework
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Study
for Exam
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Tuesday
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11/3
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Class work
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Socratic
Seminar
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Homework
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Review Logical Fallacies Handouts
Make Flashcards on Fallacies
and
write 1 page reflection on Seminar
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Wednesday
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11/5
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Study
for exam on Fahrenheit 451
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Class work
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Exam
Begin
Annotation of Articles on Censorship
All
articles are in Fahrenheit Box on Blog
Resources
for research
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Homework
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Annotate
Articles on Censorship
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Thursday
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11/6
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Annotate
Articles on Censorship
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Class work
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Annotate
Articles on Censorship
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Homework
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Cornell Notes on
Censorship
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Friday
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11/7
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Class work
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Complete
Censorship Essay Template.pdf
(located
in Fahrenheit Box)
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Homework
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Draft 1 on Censorship
Essay due Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com
Agree or Disagree that
censorship may affect the “right to know” in the future.
Make
sure you have a copy of Chinua Achibe’s
Things
Fall Apart
Reminder
Grammar Packet Due next Thursday
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Monday
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11/9
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Class work
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Read
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achibe Ch.1-7
Read
“The White
Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism
“The
first novel of Chinua Achebe, deals with the clash of cultures and the
violent transitions in life and values brought about by British colonialism
in Nigeria at the end of the 19th century”.
Objectives:
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Identify
and analyze the use of Igbo vocabulary and similes as a marker of Achebe’s
style
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Identify
and assess how proverbs and folktales function in Igbo culture
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Develop
appreciation for the values and traditions of an indigenous culture
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Write an
informative essay assessing Achebe’s efforts to use the English language to
convey Nigerian culture and values (Paper prompt: Analyze the strategies
Achebe uses to convey the clash of cultures)
Domain Specific Vocabulary:
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Direct/indirect
characterization
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Static/dynamic
character
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Round/flat
character
Academic Vocabulary:
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Imperialism
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Colonization
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Polytheism
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Monotheism
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Polygamy
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Animism
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Cowries
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Ibo
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Apartheid
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Evaluate
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Analyze
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Synthesize
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Generate
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Infer
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Homework
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Read Things Fall Apart
· What
is fiction?
· What
is history?
· Find
Nigeria on the map of Africa. Discuss its features.
· Compare
contemporary, colonial and pre‐colonial
maps of Africa. Discuss their
features.
· What
does “diversity” mean in Nigeria as compared to the US?
· What
are stereotypes? How do certain words promote a negative impression of
Africa or Africans?
o What is problematic about the following terms: tribe, hut, savage, primitive,
backward, timeless, primordial, (etc)? Why are these terms
problematic?
Why might some people find them offensive or disparaging?
· Who is
Chinua Achebe?
· Who
lives in Nigeria?
· What
are the official languages of Nigeria? How many languages are spoken
throughout the country? How many cultural or ethnic groups can you find on
the map (see supplementary materials for linguistic and ethnic maps of
Nigeria)?
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Tuesday
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11/10
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Class work
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Read Things Fall Apart Ch
8-11
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Homework
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Read
Things Fall Apart
Download
Simile Worksheet
Download
Proverb Worksheet
Download
Folktale Worksheet (Chapter 9,11, 15 or download one from the internet
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Wednesday
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11/11
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Veterans Day
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Veterans Day No Class
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Homework
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Read Things Fall Apart
Grammar Packets Due
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Thursday
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11/12
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Class work
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IAB TEST IN LIBRARY
Periods 1 and 5
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Homework
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Read Things Fall Apart Ch
12-13
Discussion Questions:
· Who
are the Igbo people? Where do they live? What is their life like? How have
their customs and traditions changed since the 1880s? Since the 1950s?
· What
do they believe? Describe their religious system and the hierarchy of Igbo
cosmology.
· What
is the concept of ogbanje (77) and how is it important to the novel?
· What
other cultural concepts in the book are unique to Igbo people? Why do you
think Achebe includes these? What do they tell us about Igbo people
and their
beliefs in the novel?
· What are
“kola nuts” and how are they used in the novel? What do they represent
or symbolize?
· Discuss
the idea of “cultural tourism.” Do you feel like an outsider or voyeur when
you read some of these passages? Explain.
· What
elements of Igbo culture and society are similar to your own? What elements
differ?
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Friday
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11/13
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Class work
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Correct Diagramming
Packets
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Homework
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Read Things Fall Apart Ch 14-19
Objective: To discuss and explore what gender means in the
novel. To see how complex this theme really is, even though Okonkwo’s view
seems very narrow and clear‐ cut.
Discussion Questions:
· How
does Okonkwo’s relationship with male and female characters differ? Why?
· What
role to women play in this novel? What is life like for Okonkwo’s wives?
· Some
female characters in the book don’t seem to fit the mold according to
Okonkwo’s view? Who are they and why are they important to the text? (
· What
material things can you find in the book that have a specific gender? Does
their gender effect their meaning or how they are used? How or how not?
· When
Okonkwo is sent into exile, he is sent to Mbanta, his “motherland,” where
things seem very different than life in Umuofia. How are they
different? What do these differences tell us about gender? What do you make
of the expression “Mother is Supreme” that is mentioned in the book?
· What
do the terms “patriarchy” and “matriarchy” mean? Give one example of each
from the text.
· How is
Okonkwo’s view of gender different from other characters’ view of gender
roles in the novel? Give examples.
· Think
about the character Ezinma. Of Ezinma, Okonkwo thinks: "She should have
been a boy" (p. 64). Why is it necessary to the story that Okonkwo's
most
favored child be a girl? What does it mean that she has all of the
characteristics
that her father finds more valuable in a son?
· In the
novel, there are two kinds of murder – male and female (124). What are these
and what do they mean to the novel? Does it matter that Okonkwo committed the
“female” kind of murder?
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Some female characters in the book don’t seem to fit the mold according to Okonkwo’s view? Who are they and why are they important to the text? whats the answer
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