1. Warm Up # 2
Who’s account of the “Meeting in the Congo” do you find to be more believable?
What are similarities and differences between the accounts?
Why is it more trustworthy?

2. The White Mans Burden (pg. 23, Class Docs)

3. Stanza # 1
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

4. Essential Question (workbook pg. 10)
What is the message or purpose of Kipling's poem “The White Man’s Burden?”

5. White Man’s Burden 1. Read your stanza (paragraph) with your partner
2. Read each line again
translating each line in the margin
3. Write a summary of your stanza
3 - 4 sentences

6. Vocabulary Abide - Stay Sloth – lazy Heathen – godless
Sullen – gloomy, grumpy
Folly – stupid acts
Tawdry – showy, but cheap
Serf – Slave
Reap – to gain or harvest
Bondage – Slavery
“Lightly proferred laurel” – easily won prize

8. Caricatures
Uncle Sam
Great Britain

9. Analysis Questions
Complete “Analysis Questions” at the bottom of pg. 10
Use Complete Sentences