English 10 Honors Day 11 Objective: To analyze the purpose and events of Part 2

Part 2 Quiz (Chapters 14-19)  Turn in Homework (Folktales and Fables worksheet)  Take Quiz.  Grade it.  Questions or comments about this chapter?  Quickwrite:  Has Okonkwo changed while in exile? If so, how? What events and/or people have influenced him?

Tragic Hero  What is a tragic hero?  Aristotle generated a classic definition of a tragic hero. Today, you’re going to revisit your notes about Okonkwo’s character and add to those ideas in order to explain how Okonkwo is a tragic hero.  Look at the worksheet. Each row is a trait of a tragic hero.  Go through the chart, filling in the examples of Okonkwo’s behavior. Then, fill in other examples you know of from literature, films, etc.

Cultural Conflicts  Part 2 of the novel focuses on the initial cultural conflicts between the Igbo and the European missionaries.  With these main conflicts in mind, fill in the chart provided with key events and the importance of the these events (what do they foreshadow? What do they tell us about characters? In what ways are these the beginning of things “falling apart”? Etc.).

Exit Ticket  To what degree does Okonkwo fit Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero? How do the cultural conflicts introduced in these chapters help us understand Okonkwo’s potential fatal flaw?