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DECEMBER, 2012English 10
Persuasive Essay Due
Hand in your legalizing marijuana essay.
Place your original essay on the bottom and your revised version on the top.
December 3, 2012Entry Task
New Vocabulary
Foil: a character whose traits contrast with the traits of another character. A foil usually serves to highlight the strengths of the protagonist (main character)
Okonkwo vs. Unoka
Create a Venn Diagram
Compare Okonkwo with his father, Unoka.
Things Fall Apart
Read Chapter Two Fill in your chart “Okonkwo:
Man of Prestige.”What of Okonkwo’s achievements and status do we know about so far?
December 4, 2012
Read your A.R. novel and write at least one reader response.
Notebook check on Friday!!!!!
Okonkwo: Man of Prestige
Get out your Things Fall Apart packet.
What evidence have we seen so far that is contradictory of Okonkwo’s nobility?Fill in the chart with your evidence.
Things Fall Apart
Read chapter 3. Continue to look for
evidence that is contradictory to Okonkwo’s nobility, and fill in the chart accordingly.
December 5, 2012
New VocabularyDominant: controlling, influencingImplied: indirectly indicated or suggested.
Okonkwo’s Fears and Feelings
Read instructionsThink/Pair/Share (after chapter 4)Read Chapter 4
December 6, 2012
Have out your packet and Things Fall Apart.
Answer the following question in your “Man of Prestige” chart:What did Okonkwo do in Chapter 4 that contradicted his nobility?
Things Fall Apart
Read Chapter 5 Pair/Share “Fears and Feelings” chart.
Dec. 7, 2012 - HSPE PRACTICE
Because of recent complaints about noisy and disorderly behavior at lunchtime, your principal is considering giving each student an assigned seat at lunchtime. Take a position on this issue. Write a multiple-paragraph letter persuading your principal to support your position.
December 10, 2012
Good Day!
Please get out Things Fall Apart and your packet.We will review traits and actions that contradict Okonkwo’s nobility on the first page of your packet.
Things Fall Apart
Review Learning TargetsRead Chapters 6 and 7.Pay attention – there will be a quiz over these two chapters tomorrow.
December 11, 2012
Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.
Chapter 6 and 7 Questions
1. What event has the whole village turned out for?
2. Who is Chielo?3. How is Nwoye more like his
grandfather, Unoka, than his father?
4. Why is the village happy that the locusts arrived?
5. What happens to Ikemefuna?1 point each = 5 points
Chapter 6 and 7 Questions
1. What event has the whole village turned out for?
2. Who is Chielo?3. How is Nwoye more like his
grandfather, Unoka, than his father?
4. Why is the village happy that the locusts arrived?
5. What happens to Ikemefuna?1 point each = 5 points
Chapter 6 and 7 Questions
1. What event has the whole village turned out for? Wrestling tournament
2. Who is Chielo? Priestess of Agbala, Oracle of the Hills and the Caves
3. How is Nwoye more like his grandfather, Unoka, than his father? He doesn’t like the stories that are masculine and violent. He prefers the stories his mother told
4. Why is the village happy that the locusts arrived? They only come once in a life time and they are a delicacy to eat.
5. What happens to Ikemefuna? He is murdered by the tribe and by Okonkwo’s own hand.
1 point each = 5 points
December 11. 2012
Read chapter 8 of Things Fall Apart
December 12, 2012
Entry TaskRead the passage on page Things Fall Apart
December 12, 2012
Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.
December 12, 2012
Finish reading Chapter 8 Page 3 in your packet –
Structured Paragraph.
How does Ikemefuna’s murder effect individuals and the community?
December 13, 2012
Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.
December 13, 2012
Finish your structured paragraph.
Don’t forget to embed your quotes.
Show me when you are finished!
Read your A.R. novel and write at least two reader responses of at least one paragraph each.
Friday, Dec. 14, 2012
Read your A.R. novel and write at least one response of at least one paragraph.
December 17, 2012
Read Things Fall Apart – Chapter 9. Answer on the back of your structured paragraph in your packet:
Why is Ezinma so cherished? What motivates Ekwefi? Other than magic, how might
one explain the iyi-uwa?
December 17, 2012
Chapter 6 and 7 QuestionsMake Up
1. What is the relationship between Chielo and Ezinma (Ekwefi and Okonkwo’s daughter)?
2. Who is Okafo?3. What pleases Nwoye more than
anything?4. What advice does Ogbuefi Ezeudu give
to Okonkwo concerning Ikemfuna?5. How is Nwoye effected by Ikemuna’s
death?1 point each = 5 points
December 18, 2012
Please read through chapter 10. Write three open-ended (level 3) discussion questions and hand in before the end of the period.