Posted: September 17, 2012
Complete your reading of Findley's 'The Wars' by Thursday.
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Posted: September 10, 2012
Please complete a close reading and a one page response for Friday. Remember to place it in the proper duotang.
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Posted: September 6, 2012
Welcome all students to the 2012 - 2013 school year!
Posted: May 28, 2012
Bring two printed copies of a single poem dealing with loss, death, or grief.
Posted: May 21, 2012
Posted: May 10, 2012
There will be a vocabulary quiz on Parts 1 and 2 tomorrow.
Posted: May 2, 2012
English 122 Things Fall Apart Essay Valanne
Select ONE of the following topics.
1. Father-son relationships play an important part in Ibo culture and in the novel. How does the father-son relationship throughout three generations shape the personalities of Okonkwo, and Nwoye? Comment on their characteristics and the role their father plays in making them who they are.
2. "The story of Okonkwo is in a way the story of all men; he pays a price because he places too much emphasis on strength and manliness." Discuss this quote as it applies to both the novel and our own modern culture.
3. The power of religion can both guide a society and destroy it. Discuss the ways in which Christianity, as promoted by the missionaries, does both.
4. One of the themes of Achebe's novel is the striving after titles, trophies, and status in general. Write an essay commenting on the presence and importance of status symbols in Okonkwo's world and today's world. Explain their appeal and the way in which searching for status symbols is a negative force in life.
This is not a personal essay. Support what you say. Use discussion - talk about and explain your thoughts and ideas. Include a detailed works cited page.
Your essay MUST be typed (font 12, Times New Roman, double space). Your essay MUST follow MLA formatting. Essay length: 6 typed pages (not including cover page and work cited page). Value = 100. Spelling and mechanics count for 30%. MLA format counts for 20%
AVOID PLAGIARISM
DUE: May 22
Posted: May 1, 2012
Check out the Recommended Reads section at Mightier Than The Sword - all books suggested by MVHS readers
http://dt16community.nbed.nb.ca/blogs/mightierthanthesword/
Posted: May 1, 2012
Questions on Chapter 3 of Heart of Darkness for Monday
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Essay due next Tuesday (May 8th)
Posted: May 1, 2012
Complete reading Part II of Things Fall Apart for tomorrow
Posted: April 30, 2012
Tuesday May 1st
Quiz on chapters 1 - 13
Posted: April 27, 2012
Complete the following:
Chapters 7 – 13
1. What influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye? What did they hear from Okonkwo?
2. How did the boys help their father during the days after the harvest?
3. Why were the people happy to see the locusts come? How did they use them?
4. What message did Ogbuefi Exeudu bring? How did Okonkwo explain the trip to Ikemefuna?
5. Describe the appearance of the people as they went to the execution. What did they carry?
6. What typical child’s game did Ikemefuna play with himself when he feared that his mother was dead? What was ironic about his fears?
7. Why did Okonkwo strike the last blow? Where did such a fear probably arise?
8. What did Nwoye’s reaction show about him? How was he different from his father and the other villagers?
9. What did Okonkwo’s illness tell about him? What was Obierika’s reaction?
10. What was the tradition in burying a husband and wife who die at about the same time?
11. Why couldn’t Obierika and Okonkwo tap their own palm trees?
12. How did the two families settle the bride-price? How much was it?
13. What did the men reveal about the village traditions as they talked about the way a bride-price was determined?
14. What bit of foreshadowing appears at the end of chapter 8?
15. From what did the people make fever medicine?
16. What caused Ekwefi and Ezinma to be especially close? What is an ogbanje?
17. How was a dead child treated? Why?
18. What did Ezinma do that showed she enjoyed looking for her pebble?
19. Why wouldn’t Ekwefi believe that Ezinma’s illness was the iba, or fever?
20. How did Okonkwo break Ezinma’s fever?
21. Describe the ceremony performed by the ‘ancestral spirits’ of the village. How many were there? Why that number? How did they address the people involved? What did those people do in return?
22. What was the verdict in abuse trial? What part did each family have?
Posted: April 26, 2012
Complete terms for chapters 7 - 13.
Test next Tuesday on Part 1 of the novel
Posted: April 25, 2012
Things Fall Apart
Questions chapters 3 - 6.
Proverb sheet.
Read to the end of Part I.
Posted: April 22, 2012
Things Fall Apart questions and terms for chapters 1 - 2
Close reading of Nigeria article
Read chapters 3 - 6