Today’s agenda-
focus of the week
Teacher’s meeting
today at 2PM. I am the chair.
·
Continue “Dead Man’s Path”
·
“Literary Terms”
·
Continue with transitional terms with compound
sentences
· Daily
pronunciation
Wednesday
·
Continue “Dead Man’s Path”
· Begin
work of quoting text “ “
·
Causative verbs-
Thursday or Friday
·
Test#3 – paragraph about both stories, comparing
Bahn Mi, 5397 Victoria Drive
· “Dead
Man’s Path” module
· Chinua
Achebe- African writer, Nigeria
English
12- very popular novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Chenua
Achebe- student – educuated in English, British style schools
history-
British
poetry-British
literature-
British
-became
a writer, wanted to write about Nigeria, Africa
-give
voice to his people
themes
of colonialism and oppression are all through his work
oppression
-someone works to take your rights away, keep you down
· Big
question:
Surface
level question: Does a teacher from away have to respect the culture of the local
students, even if the teacher isn’t part of that culture?
IDIOM
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Bigger
question:
Deeper
level question: Does a person in a position of authority who comes from a
different culture have to show respect for the local culture?
Story
about colonialism on a deeper level
A
powerful group or people moving in and taking over.
Canada’s
relationship and history with First Nations Peoples
-thematic
similarity
theme
– deep message about human nature
SURFACE
LEVEL -story about Mr. Obi, a headmaster, principal of a school
BIGGER,
DEEPER LEVEL- metaphor for colonialism, one country colonizing another- taking
over, not respecting the existing culture
ANOTHER
READING – progressive thinkers bringing about destruction and violence
the
village- a metaphor for any colonized place
Mr.
Obi- symbol of colonizer, represents colonizers
Canadian
context- First Nations Peoples
unprogressive
(negative-sounding) – backward, simple, unscientific, dumb
conservative,
traditional (positive-sounding)
Canada-
multicultural, tolerance(n), acceptance
IDIOM
put up with – tolerate(v) something that is bothering you
tolerant(adj)
The
US – “the Melting Pot” a place to assimilate
Notes
from the text:
“young”
“energetic”- positive words to describe Micheal Obi (ironic)
physical
description is not positive-
physical description on Micheal – not
impressive
“sat folded up in a chair”
“stoop-shouldered
and frail”
“deep-set
eyes”
“only
twenty six, but looked thirty or more”
“he was not unhandsome”
Achebe
is using Nancy as his way of expressing his feeling about Micheal.
Mission
– church, Christian church establishment
missionary
– someone who shares information about their religion, often travel to other
countries
VOCAB
proselytize(v) – teach about religion
Transitional Terms
Compound sentences
, SOBA
SV, SOBA SV.
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire,
but the old priest refused to allow him to do that.
;
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire;
the old priest refused to allow him to do that.
; TRANS,
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire;
however, the old priest refused to allow him to do that.
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire;
on the contrary, the old priest refused to allow him to do that.
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire;
conversely, the old priest refused to allow him to do that.
.
Mr. Obi wanted to block the path with sticks and barbed wire.
Conversely, the old priest refused to allow him to do that. 2 SIMPLE SENTENCES
adverbial conjunctions – however therefore
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