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Posted: April 30, 2012

Tuesday  May 1st   Quiz on chapters 1 - 13
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

Posted: April 22, 2012

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest essay due May 8th Heart of Darkness questions and terms for pages 1 - 27 due Monday April 23  

Posted: April 13, 2012

Finish reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for Monday Macbeth Re-Imagined Journal Due Tuesday Macbeth Re-Imagined Project Due Thursday

Posted: April 13, 2012

Test:  Acts 4 and 5 of King Lear on Tuesday Essay due Tuesday

Posted: April 9, 2012

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Mon, Apr 16/12 9:00 pm

Posted: April 5, 2012

Use supporting quotes and line references   Act 4 Scene 5   1.          What is the state of the love triangle now?  Which sister is the better solicitor?  Which would he favour? 2.          Explain lines 10 and 11.   Act 4 Scene 6   How does Edgar create the illusion of climbing and of great height?  Summarize Lear’s comments on justice, injustice, and life. At what point does Edgar change his identity? Reason is madness (line 174).  Explain what ‘reason’ Edgar has just heard from Lear.   Act 4 Scene 7   What words are most expressive of Cordelia’s grief and love?  Of Lear’s remorse and shame?  2.  What changes are immediately apparent in Lear’s character when he regains his sanity?  How does he regain his sanity?     DO NOT FORGET TO WORK ON YOUR ESSAY

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