EF67 Class 30 "Dead Men's Path" model answer

 

EF67

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue “Dead Man’s Path”

Model answer

·      Continue complex sentences- adjective clauses

 

Thursday

·      Test#4  Paragraph on “Dead Man’s Path” with quoted material “ “

·      Continue complex sentences- adjective clauses

choose vocab for the quiz on adj cl Monday

·      Listening exercise

 

Friday is a Professional Development Day

No school for you

 

TWO WEEKS LEFT!

-essay writing

-presentation project

 

Monday

·      Quiz#4 on adjective clauses

·      Begin presentation project

 

 

 

 

 

Notes about “Dead Men’s Path”:

 

·      Michael Obi

-highly motivated

 

-doesn’t seem to care much about the villager’s traditions, beliefs

“eradicate just such beliefs”

POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES -young, energetic, enthusiastic, capable, outspoken, motivated, confident,

yet unrealistic and inexperienced

NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES -also selfish, glib, disrespectful, close-minded, arrogant, lacks communication skills, lacks diplomacy, inflexible

IDIOM “My way or the highway.”

 

-“Dead men do not require footpaths.”

- thinks that his “modern methods”(1) are better than the old ways

-He expects/demands his students to adopt these ways, even though their religion and village life reflect a different way of life.

-He is the cause of his own problems.

IDIOM He is hoist by his own petard.

 

-believes in “many wonderful ideas,” but has not had a lot of experience with people to guide him

- academically inclined, poor ‘people skills’, ‘soft skills’

‘interpersonal communication’

 

-Obi has “modern” ideas; the villagers have old-fashioned traditional ideas

 

·      Nancy

-young and modern

-is a bit innocent because she thinks her husband, as a headmaster, knows best how to do things

-is a bit of a follower, of fashion and of what’s in magazines.

-perhaps insecure, uncertain

“imitating the woman's magazine she read.”

- vain, unrealistic, uncritical

“become completely infected” by Obi’s new ideas

-dreams of being the “queen of the school”

 

-the school is the “ruins of his work.”

Enthusiasm is evidently the most important factor in many successes. But, “misguided zeal” can make things much worse.

 

“The whole idea is just fantastic” – fantasy, illusion(n), illusory(a)– not true, imagination

 

·      Taps into the idea of Colonialism

Colony –

 

·      Talk about Canada’s history of not respecting First Nations cultures

-Residential schools

Taking “the Indian out of the Indian”

 

 

Model an answer for an example test question.

 

Why did Mr. Obi want to close the path?

 

paragraph of at least 150 w

 

Grabber

Topic sentence

3,4,5 supporting ideas

Concluding sentence

 

PROCESS

A Prewriting

1.    Read the question. Read every word. Read it five times. Make sure you understand what the teacher is asking you to do.

2.    Generate ideas. Brainstorm.

Write down the ideas- vocab begets vocab.

3.    Organize the ideas.

 

B Writing

4.    Writing the sentences

Grabber

TS

SS

CS

5.    Proofread. Edit. Check the things that you know you have trouble with.

6.    Pass it in. Go home.

 

 

Why did Mr. Obi want to close the path?

Prewriting -work together if you like. Get some ideas going.

 

In the last week, probably Wednesday or Thursday, Nov 1^st or 2nd, you will have a chance to replace the mark for one quiz or test.

 

 

points

1.    Obi thought that “dead men”(3) didn’t need a pathway to the graveyard

2.    Obi demonstrate his power- feels the school is extension of himself, has authority to not permit ideas different from his,

status “condemnation of the narrow views”(1)

3.    Obi- high standard of teaching, Obi bleieve school was a place to teach, did not want people to cross though the school, disturb the class, has nothing “to do with the school”(2)

 

Grabber: 7 ways- question, anecdote, statistic, history, quotation, idiom, saying

 

 

 

 

 

 

TS borrow words or use synomyms

Why did Mr. Obi want to close the path?

BASIC Mr. Obi wanted to close the path for several reasons.

IN-DEPTH The protagonist of “Dead Men”s Path”, Mr. Micheal Obi, proposed insisted/demanded that the path to the shrine be demolished in order to fulfill his vision/plan/idea of the Mission school.  

 

 

 

Write two or three sentences- 1.Obi thought that “dead men”(3) didn’t need a pathway to the graveyard

To begin with, Mr. Obi thought that “dead men”(3) didn’t need a pathway to the graveyard/cemetery/shrine. He thought that the traditons of the viullage concerning the shrine were foolish/vain/ridiculous/silly. In fact he called them “fantastic”(3), meaning that they were like a childish fantasy.

 

 

Write two or three sentences- 2.Obi demonstrate his power- feels the school is extension of himself, has authority to not permit ideas different from his,

status “condemnation of the narrow views”(1)

 

Write two or three sentences- 3.Obi- high standard of teaching, Obi bleieve school was a place to teach, did not want people to cross though the school, disturb the class, has nothing “to do with the school”(2)

 

Concluding sentence-

BASIC For the reasons stated above, Mr. Obi wanted to close the path.

IN-DEPTH For the reasons stated above, Mr. Obi stubbornly refused to allow the villagers to continue using the path.

 

Good opportunity to say “I think…”  “In my opinion…”

In the end, I think Mr.Obi would have been better off if he had listened to the wise compromise suggested by the old priest about the eagle and the hawk perching together.

 

borrow words or use synonyms-Why did Mr. Obi want to close the path?

 

 

Why did Mr. Obi want to close the path?

 

What is your reaction if someone does the opposite of your idea? The protagonist of “Dead Men”s Path”, Mr. Micheal Obi, demanded that the path to the shrine be demolished in order to fulfill his vision of the Mission school. To begin with, Mr. Obi thought that “dead men”(3) didn’t need a pathway to the cemetery. He thought that the traditons of the viullage concerning the shrine were silly. In fact he called them “fantastic”(3), meaning that they were like a childish fantasy.

 

write sentence- Obi demonstrate his power- feels the school is extension of himself, has authority to not permit ideas different from his, status “condemnation of the narrow views”(1)

 

write sentences- Obi- high standard of teaching, Obi bleieve school was a place to teach, did not want people to cross though the school, disturb the class, has nothing “to do with the school”(2)

 

For the reasons stated above, Mr. Obi stubbornly refused to allow the villagers to continue using the path. I think Mr.Obi would have been better off if he had listened to the wise compromise suggested by the old priest about the eagle and the hawk perching together.