English 10

 Hand in your legalizing marijuana essay.  Place your original essay on the bottom and your revised version on the top.

Entry 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)

 Create a Venn Diagram  Compare Okonkwo with his father, Unoka.

 Read Chapter Two  Fill in your chart “Okonkwo: Man of Prestige.”  What of Okonkwo’s achievements and status do we know about so far?

 Read your A.R. novel and write at least one reader response.  Notebook check on Friday!!!!!

 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.

 Read chapter 3.  Continue to look for evidence that is contradictory to Okonkwo’s nobility, and fill in the chart accordingly.

New Vocabulary Dominant: controlling, influencing Implied: indirectly indicated or suggested.

Read instructions Think/Pair/Share (after chapter 4) Read Chapter 4

 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?

 Read Chapter 5  Pair/Share “Fears and Feelings” chart.

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.

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.

Review Learning Targets Read Chapters 6 and 7. Pay attention – there will be a quiz over these two chapters tomorrow.

 Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.

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

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

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

 Read chapter 8 of Things Fall Apart

Entry Task Read the passage on page Things Fall Apart

 Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.

 Finish reading Chapter 8  Page 3 in your packet – Structured Paragraph. How does Ikemefuna’s murder effect individuals and the community?

 Read your A.R. novel and write a reader response.

 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.

 Read your A.R. novel and write at least one response of at least one paragraph.

 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?

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

 Please read through chapter 10. Write three open-ended (level 3) discussion questions and hand in before the end of the period.