HOMEWORK
Each Week
USE YOUR GLENCO TEXT!
(Assigned on Monday
DUE on Thursday
of the same week)
 Bio – 3 Facts
 Preview – 3 facts
 Vocabulary & Literary Elements
 Describe the characters and the setting
 Constructed Response Essay
NEED HELP – Come by Wed. For help:
 7:30 - 8: 25 AM
 3:35 – 4:30 PM
Africa
5.1– Short Story
•
Chinua Achebe - Civil Peace – Page 66
5.2- Epic
•
D.T. Niane – From Sundiata Page 944
5.3– Nonfiction
•
Mark Mathabane From Kaffir Boy Page 306
5.4–Graphic Novel
•
Will Eisner The Lion of Mali, From Sundiata: A Legend of Africa Page 951
5.5 – African Poetry (handout and online web quest)
•
Keorapetse Kgositsile Spirits Unchained
Homework 5.1
Biography :
Read the Bio on page 64– for each paragraph, write a summary sentence.
Vocabulary :
Pages
64 - 70
Write a sentence with the vocabulary and literary elements on page 65:
1. Commandeer
2. Amenable
Chinua Achebe
3. Retail
4. Fortnight
5. Edifice
6. Dialect
Read Carefully : Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe – Pages 66 - 70
Characters and Setting : List and describe the characters and the setting
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, write about how everyday living is
described in Civil Peace.
(At least 4 sentences)
Homework 5.2
Biography :
Read the Bio on page 942– for each paragraph, write a summary sentence.
Vocabulary : (943)
Pages
942 - 948
Write a sentence with each :
1. Scrupulous
D.T. Niane
2. Elude
3. Confidante
4. Perpetuate
5. Dialogue
6. Genre
7. Epic
Read Carefully : Sundiata translated by Niane Pages944 - 948
Characters and Setting : List and describe the characters and the setting
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, write about one of the characters.
(At least 4 sentences)
Homework 5.3
Biography : (304)
Write a summary sentence for each paragraph.
Vocabulary : (305)
Pages
304- 317
Write a sentence with each.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Coterie
Admonish
Peruse
Credence
Vehemently
Theme
Mark Mathabane
Read Carefully this passage from: Kaffir Boy by Mathabane Pages 306 - 317
Characters and Setting : List and describe the characters and the setting
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, write about one of the characters.
(At least 4sentences)
Homework 5.4
Preview: (951)
Read page 951 - List 3 facts
Vocabulary :
Write a sentence with each word.
1. Compare
2. Contrast
Pages
951 - 954
Will Eisner
Cartoonist
Read Carefully : … The Lion of Mali by Will Eisner Pages 951 - 954
Respond and Think Critically : Answer questions 1 – 6 on page 954. Please use
complete sentences and answer fully, completely.
Homework 5.5
Bio:
Search online and list 6 facts about Keorapetse Kgositsile
Vocabulary : Define
Handout
and
online search
1. Stanza
2. Prose
3. Poetry
Keorapetse Kgositsile
4. Granite
5. Monster
6. rhythm
7. Clarity
8.
Read Carefully : Spirits Unchained by Keorapetse Kgositsile Handout
Summarize the poem in 1 sentence.
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, describe how literary elements are
used in this poem.
(At least 4 sentences)
Homework 5.6
Bio:
Handout
and
online search
Search online and list 6 facts about Chris Abani
Vocabulary : Define
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Ferocity
Evaporating
Cowardice
Masticated
Rank
Chris
Abani
Read Carefully : Blue by Abani Handout
Summarize the poem in 1 sentence.
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, describe how literary elements are
used in this poem.
(At least 4 sentences)
Homework 5.7
Bio:
Handout
and
online search
Search online and list 6 facts about Bessie Head
Vocabulary : Define
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Bessie
Head
Idealist
Apathetic
Static
Placid
Engulfed
Read Carefully : Self Portrait
by
Bessie Head Handout
Summarize the poem in 1 sentence.
Constructed Response : In a constructed paragraph, describe how literary elements are
used in this poem.
(At least 4 sentences)
SPIRITS UNCHAINED by Keorapetse Kgositsile.
• Rhythm it is we
walk to against the evil
of monsters who try to kill the Spirit
It is the power of this song
that colors our every act
as we move from the oppressor-made gutter
• Gut it is will move us from the gutter
It is the rhythm of guts
blood-black, granite hard
and flowing like the river or the mountains
• It is the rhythm of the unchained Spirit
will put fire in our hands
to blaze our way
to clarity to power
to the rebirth of real men......
• Copyright 1971, reprinted by permission of Broadside Press
Blue by Chris Abani
I
Africans in the hold fold themselves
to make room for hope. In the afternoon’s
ferocity, tar, grouting the planks like the glue
of family, melts to the run of a child’s licorice stick.
Wet decks crack, testing the wood’s mettle.
Distilled from evaporating brine, salt
dusts the floor, tickling with the measure
into time and the thirst trapped below.
III
Sold six times on the journey to the coast,
once for a gun, then cloth, then iron
manilas, her pride was masticated like husks
of chewing sticks, spat from morning-rank mouths.
Breaking loose, edge of handcuffs held high
like the blade of a vengeful axe, she runs
across the salt scratch of deck,
pain deeper than the blue inside a flame.
II
The captain’s new cargo of Igbos disturbs him.
They stand, computing the swim back to land.
Haitians still say: Igbo pend’c or’ a ya!
But we do not hang ourselves in cowardice.
IV
The sound, like the break of bone
could have been the Captain’s skull
or the musket shot dropping her
over the side, her chains wrapped
around his neck in dance.
Chris Abani, “Blue” from Dog Woman. Copyright © 2004 by Chris Abani. Reprinted by
permission of Red Hen Press.
Self Portrait by
Bessie Head