ENGLISH II
6 to 10 October
10-6
Warm Up: Parts of Speech Review – Pronouns
◦ Notes
◦ Application
Essential Question: How do short stories, poetry, and hymns reflect a culture’s history?
Today’s Agenda:
◦ Egyptian Short Stories – The Shipwrecked Sailor
◦ Egyptian Poetry
◦ Egyptian Hymns
Tomorrow’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature
Assignment Reminder: Egyptian Museum Brochure Assignment due 10/7
Homework Reminder: Turn in Homework “Afterlife” – Due Today
Warm Up – Parts of Speech Review
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Pronouns
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Take the place of a noun or another pronoun
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Antecedent – the noun the pronoun replaces
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Types:
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Personal – I, you, he, she, it, we, they, and who - More often than not (but not exclusively), they replace nouns representing people. When most
people think of pronouns, it is the personal pronouns that usually spring to mind.
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Reflexive - We use the reflexive pronouns to indicate that the person who realizes the action of the verb is the same person who receives the
action. Reflexive pronouns are identical in form to intensive pronouns. .
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Intensive - An intensive pronoun (sometimes called an emphatic pronoun) refers back to another noun or pronoun in the sentence to emphasize
it (e.g., to emphasize that it is the thing carrying out the action).
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Demonstrative - These pronouns are used to demonstrate (or indicate). This, that, these and those are all demonstrative pronouns.
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Relative - Relative pronouns are used to add more information to a sentence. Which, that, who (including whom and whose) and where are all
relative pronouns.
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Interrogative - These pronouns are used in questions. Although they are classified as pronouns, it is not easy to see how they replace nouns.
Who, which, what, where and how are all interrogative pronouns.
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Indefinite - refer to nouns, often without specifying which ones. Some indefinite pronouns have an antecedent, but many do not. (pg 3 of
grammar workbook lists indefinite pronouns)
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Possessive - Possessive pronouns are used to show possession. As they are used as adjectives, they are also known as possessive adjectives. My,
your, his, her, its, our and their are all possessive pronouns
10/6 Warm Up – Identifying Pronouns
1.
Ramona, are you going to study tonight?
2.
When Robert stopped, everyone piled into his car.
3.
Phillip said that she would miss her appointment.
4.
During the storm, the house lost its roof.
5.
I must clean my room.
6.
As they packed their suitcases, the twins talked excitedly about their vacation.
7.
Joseph, please clean up your mess.
8.
The woman who lives across the street never mows her grass.
9.
When he was very young, Mozart wrote beautiful sonotas.
10. Why are you so sleepy, Monica.
The Middle Kingdom
◦ The Shipwrecked Sailor
◦ How are universal story elements used in “The
Shipwrecked Sailor”?
◦ How does the story teach about people and their
values in the Middle Kingdom?
Ancient Egyptian Hymns and Prayers
Hymn from the Temple of Heru at Edfu
All hail, jubilation to You, O Golden One,
Sole ruler, Uraeus of the Supreme Lord Himself!
Mysterious One who gives birth to the divine entities,
Forms the animals, models them as She pleases, fashions men...
O Mother! ...Luminous One who thrusts back the darkness,
who illuminates every human creature with Her rays,
hail, Great One of many Names...
You from whom the Divine Entities come forth in this Your Name of Mut-Aset!
You-Who-Cause the throat to breathe,
Daughter of Ra, whom He spat forth from His mouth in this Your Name of Tefnut!
O Nit who appeared in Your barque in this Your Name of Mut!
O Venerable Mother, You who subdues Your adversaries in this Your name Nekhbet!
O You-Who-Knows-How-To-Make-Right-Use-of-the-Heart,
You who triumphs over your enemies in this Your Name of Sekhmet!
It is the Golden One...the Lady of Drunkenness, of Music, of Dance,
of Frankincense, of the Crown, of Young Women,
Whom men acclaim because they love Her!
It is the Gold of the Divine Entities, who comes forth at Her season,
the month of Epipi, the Day of the New Moon, at the Festival of "She is Delivered"...
Heaven makes merry, the earth is full of gladness, the Castle of Heru rejoices.
◦ What is the theme of this
poem?
◦ What is the tone of this
poem?
◦ Look up the word
“luminous” – what does
the word mean? What are
other forms of this word?
◦ What is the purpose of
this poem?
Ancient Egyptian Prayers and Hymns
Hymn from the Papyrus Chester Beatty
◦ What is the theme of this poem?
I praise the Golden, I worship Her Majesty,
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I extol the Lady of Heaven; I give adoration to Het-Hert,
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Laudations to my Mistress!
I called to Her, She heard my plea,
She sent my Mistress to me;
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She came by Herself to see me,
O great wonder that happened to me!
I was joyful, exulting, elated,
When they said: "See, She is here!"
As She came, the young men bowed,
Out of great love for Her.
I make devotions to My Goddess,
That She grant me my sister as gift.
What is the tone of this poem?
Look up the word “laudations” – what does the
word mean? What are other forms of this word?
What is the purpose of this poem?
10-7
Warm Up: Writing Prompt #8
Essential Question: What are the origins and meaning of Middle Eastern Literature?
Today’s Agenda:
◦ Introduction to Middle Eastern Literature and Stories
◦ 1000 Arabian Nights - Introduction
Tomorrow’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature – Short Stories
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Name
Date
English II
WP8
Writing Prompt #8
◦ Please respond to the following prompt. You will construct a 5 paragraph response in which you have both a
clear introduction and conclusion and in which you provide three significant details that support your
response.
◦ You will turn this Writing Prompt in today.
◦ In Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate, each chapter begins with a recipe that gradually turns into a narrative.
For example, one chapter begins with instructions for preparing Christmas rolls:
◦ “Take care to chop the onion fine. To keep from crying when you chop it (which is so annoying!), I suggest you place a little bit on
your head. The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next
thing you know you just can’t stop. I don’t know whether that’s ever happened to you, but I have to confess it’s happened to me,
many times…”
◦ Think of a food that provokes strong emotion in you, perhaps because it reminds you of your childhood or because
you were eating it when something dramatic happened. Taking Esquivel’s passage as a model, write the recipe for this
food, and gradually shift into narrative, explaining why the food is meaningful to you. Include lots of descriptive,
sensory adjectives.
Middle Eastern Literature
◦ History
◦ Colonialism
◦ Literature
◦ The first standard printed text of The Thousand and One Nights appeared in the fifteenth century.
◦ After the French scholar Antoine Galland introduced the Western World to the stories, many English translations of
the work were produced.
◦ The Thousand and One Nights is actually a collection of unrelated tales pieced together into one long narrative.
◦ The framework of the collection is the tale of King Shahriyar whose wife’s betrayal filled him with hatred for all women.
◦ Every night, motivated by vengeance and fear, he married a different woman only to execute her in the morning.
◦ Finally a young woman named Scheherazade devised a scheme to stop the executions – she married the king and on the first night
of their marriage she told him a spellbinding story. At daybreak she had not finished the story so she promised the king that she
would finish the story the next night. Captivated by the story, the King delayed the execution. That night Scheherazade finished her
story but immediately began another story. In this way, she enthralls the king and prolongs her life for a thousand and one nights.
◦ By the time she finished telling her final story, almost three years had passed and King Shahriyar had fallen in love and decided not
to kill her.
Middle East – History of Colonialism
◦ Arab people have lived in Palestine for thousands of years. European Jewish
settlers began to steadily arrive in 1882 but there was never anything other than
an overwhelming Arab majority until a few weeks before the “Nakba” (Arabic
word for catastrophe) otherwise known as the establishment of the state of
“Israel” in the spring of 1948.
◦ Having been under Ottoman rule since 1516, Palestine was placed under the
British Mandate as soon as the Ottoman Empire fell. General Allenby entered
Palestine in 1917 and the Mandate was officially legalized by the League of
Nations in 1922 (Mir).
◦ Much of the Palestinian writing that is available was written by those living in
exile and was devoid of voices of dissent and instead focused on romance and
poetry.
◦ The Palestinian people’s effort to articulate a conscious identity out of the
oppression they experienced was a response to the dispossession of the
homeland and the establishment of a foreign state on two thirds of the historical
land of Palestine and addresses the concepts of history, nationalism, and the role
of literature in the liberation of a people (Mir).
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
◦ The lamp pictured represents the sort of lamp in
which the super-natural creatures known as
jinnees, jinn, or genies, supposedly were found.
Typically, a human character finds the lamp and
unwittingly releases the jinnee, who, despite
granting wishes, often causes more harm than
good.
◦ How would having the jinnee hide in a lamp,
bottle, or jar enhance the effectiveness of his
appearance?
◦ How do you think a jinnee would feel about
being released?
Name
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English II
Summary
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
◦ Read Page 84 “About The Thousand and One Nights”
◦ Folk Tales –
◦ Part of the oral tradition, the body of stories, poems, and songs that are passed down by word of mouth from generation to
generation. Most folk tales include the following characteristics:
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A Lesson about Life
Magical or supernatural elements
Characters who possess one or tow main traits
A clear separation between good and evil
◦ Narrative Structure –
◦ Refers to the way in which a work of fiction is organized. The Thousand and One Nights contains framed stories, or storieswithin-a-story. That narrative structure occurs as characters in one story tell other stories.
◦ Summary – a brief statement expressing the key details of a literary work.
◦ First – identify the details that are essential to your understanding of a story
◦ Then – organize those details into a concise statement
◦ Your Task – After reading Page 84 summarize the main idea of each of the three subheadings of the text
10/8
Warm Up: Writing Prompt #8
Essential Question: How do folktales reveal characters and their virtues?
Today’s Agenda:
◦ 1000 Arabian Nights
Tomorrow’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature – Poetry
◦ 1,001 Arabian Nights - Assessment
Assignment: Answer Critical Reading Questions on The Fisherman and the Jinnee
10/8
Warm Up – Identify the antecedent for each underlined pronoun
1.
Some of the children are afraid of monsters.
2.
Robert usually brings his homework to class.
3.
This is not the entrée I ordered.
4.
The puppy dug its way out of the back yard.
5.
Jessica asked her father to help her change her tire.
6.
The family enjoyed themselves at the reunion.
7.
Did Robert loose his keys?
8.
The soldiers loaded their gear on the truck.
9.
The boat with the wood hull is the one that won the race.
10.
The twins ordered milkshakes with their meals.
11.
The rowdy fans jumped to their feet and cheered loudly.
12.
That was the first time Sandra met Renee.
13.
Rebecca bought herself a new suit for the interview.
14.
The referee changed his call after final review.
15.
The emperor wore a new suit to the parade in his honor.
Name
Date
English II
Fisherman
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
1. Which details in the first two paragraphs show that the fisherman is an ordinary person, perhaps less fortunate
than most?
2. What supernatural element is introduced in the fourth paragraph?
3. What does the fisherman catch when he casts his net for the fourth time?
4. Do you think the fisherman, upon hearing that the jinnee intends to kill him, responds appropriately? Why
5. Summarize the story the jinnee tells about his past.
6. What causes the jinnee to tremble?
7. Read the first two paragraphs of “The Tale of King Yunan and Duban the Doctor” then summarize the doctor’s
background and his actions up to this point.
8. In what ways do the doctor’s actions and instructions to the King seem magical or supernatural? Explain.
9. Which details in the description of the King’s Vizier suggest the stark separation of good and evil that is
common to folk tales? Explain (91)
10. What does the doctor pour into the hollow polo-stick?
Name
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English II
Fisherman
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
◦ Is the Jinnee pictured menacing or comical?
Explain
◦ How do the arms of the jinnee and the
fisherman accent their situations?
◦ Do the details of this picture correspond to the
details of the story? Explain.
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English II
Fisherman
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
11. How does this story thus far illustrate other qualities of the folk tale?
12. Explain what character traits or qualities motivate the Vizier (92).
13. How do you know that the Vizier is not actually concerned about the King’s safety, as he says?
14. What motivates the King to tell the story of King Sindbad and the falcon.
15. What does King Sindbad say he will do to whoever lets the gazelle escape?
16. Who is responsible for the gazelle’s escape?
17. Why, precisely, are the King’s courtiers winking at one another?
18. What does this incident suggest about the King’s personality and perhaps about the way he governs?
19. Which are the most important events and details in the tale of King Sindbad and the falcon? Explain
20. What animal becomes trapped in the King’s nets?
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Fisherman
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
21. What lesson about life does the doctor’s final question point to?
22. In what ways do the Vizier’s words and the doctor’s response emphasize the separation of good and evil?
23. What was the doctor’s earlier motive in coming to the King? (94)
24. How did the doctor’s attitude toward the King change in the last three paragraphs on page 94?
25. In what ways do the doctor’s words echo those of the fisherman in the first story?
26. What favor does the doctor ask the King to grant before the execution takes place?
27. When making a judgment about a character’s actions, the reader must evaluate the character’s behavior
against moral or other criteria. Is the physician’s trick defensible? Why or why not?
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Jinnee
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Critical Response Questions
Homework
Did you enjoy the tales-within-tales format? Why or why not?
What question does the fisherman ask the jinnee “in the name of the Most High”?
How does the jinnee respond to that question?
Which character trait in the jinnee allows the fisherman to defeat him? Explain.
How does King Ynan react when the Vizier first denounces Duban the Doctor?
What does Ynan’s willingness to believe the Vizier suggest about his character? Explain your answer.
In the story of King Sinbad and the falcon, how does the falcon save the king’s life?
Why is the king later stricken with sorrow and remorse?
What does this story suggest about the dangers of unrestrained anger?
The evil Vizier tells King Ynan, “He who does not weigh the consequences of his acts shall never prosper.” In
what ways might this statement apply to the jinee, King Yunan, and King Sinbad? Explain.
11. Are stories such as these an effective vehicle for teaching moral lessons? Why or why not.
10/9
Warm Up: Parts of Speech Review
Essential Question: How does poetry express a culture’s views on life?
Today’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature – Poetry
◦ 1,001 Arabian Nights - Assessment
Tomorrow’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature – Poetry
◦ Notebook Quiz 7
10/9 Warm Up – Writing Pronouns
Fill in the blank with an appropriate pronoun
1.
Emily Dickenson spent much of ___________ life in Amherst.
2.
Randy, would _______ please help pick up the trash?
3.
All of her friends sent her _________ best wishes.
4.
With ______ motor running, the car sounded like a washing machine.
5.
Tom Sawyer didn’t always do ______ own work.
6.
With __________ money ready, Trudy stood in the long line.
7.
Many countries have ________ capitals in a central location.
8.
These books are so good that I wish _______ were longer.
9.
Charles Lindbergh flew ______ small plane across the Atlantic.
10. Anne Morrow Lindbergh features nature in many of ________ books.
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Jinnee
Assessment
1.
The Thousand and One Nights: The
Fisherman and the Jinnee
Identify the magical or supernatural element in each of the interlocking folktales:
1.
2.
3.
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
The Tale of King Yunan and Duban the Doctor
The Tale of King Sindbad and the Falcon
2.
Which characters are seemingly weak or powerless? Explain
3.
Which seemingly powerless characters use cunning or trickery to achieve their goals? Explain
4.
Are any of these characters purely good or purely evil? Explain.
5.
Describe the narrative structure of “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” by explaining who narrates each interlocking tale.
6.
In what ways are the tales connected by theme or message?
7.
How does the ending of the tale of King Sindbad and the falcon differ from the endings of the other two stories?
8.
Which main events and key details would you include in a summary of the main story about the fisherman and the jinnee?
9.
Write a summary of the Fisherman and the jinnee.
10. What do these tales reveal about the daily life and culture of the medieval Muslim world? Explain your response by citing
examples from the text.
Middle Eastern Poetry
◦ Read the introduction on page 100 and summarize the information under each subhead.
◦ Didactic Literature –
◦ Teaches lessons on ethics, or principles regarding right and wrong conduct, and it often reflects the values of the
society that produces it. This literature usually presents specific situations or details from which a more general lesson,
or moral, may be drawn.
◦ Didactic literature uses literary devices to develop the themes and lessons
◦ Aphorisms – short, pointed statements expressing a truth about human experience
◦ Personification – a technique that gives human qualities to nonhuman things
◦ Metaphor – a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Rubaiyat
From The Rubaiyat
1. Which lines or phrases in poem VII might serve as a moral in a didactic story?
2. For what condition is “behind the Veil” a metaphor?
3. In poem XXVIII what seeds did the speaker sow?
4. What is the figurative comparison that poem XLVII uses to show the world’s attitude toward the speaker
and his beloved and what does the comparison mean?
A quatrain, or four-line powem or stanza, is called a rubai in Arabic and Persian literature. Each of the poems
by Omar Khayyam is a rubai.
5. Paraphrase what the moving finger in poem LXXI does.
6. What does this use of figurative language stress about fate and human power?
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English II
Rubaiyat
From The Rubaiyat
◦ This picture is by Edmund
Dulac –
◦ How does the couples in
these two illustrations
differ?
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English II
Rubaiyat
From The Rubaiyat
1.
Which images did you find especially vivid and powerful? Why?
2.
In line 3 of poem VIII, what image describes life?
3.
What does the imagery in the next line suggest life is like?
4.
What do the images in both lines stress about life? Explain
5.
According to poem XII, what four things does the speaker need to enjoy paradise?
6.
Who might “Thou” be?
7.
Do you think the speaker requires a great deal to be happy? Explain.
8.
What two possibilities does poem XVI offer regarding human hopes?
9.
How does the description of the Sultan in poem XVII relate to one of these two possibilities?
10. What does the speaker suggest about the lives of both the least and greatest of people?
11. What do you think of the speaker’s view of life and how to spend it?
12. Do you find inconsistencies in his ideas? Explain.
13. In what ways is carpe diem still a relevant philosophy for people today?
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English II
Gulistan
From the Gulistan
1. What has caused the prisoner to insult the king.
2. Paraphrase the aphorism beginning “Who washes his hands” and identify the cause and effect it contains.
3. Does the prisoner behave wisely?
4. Paraphrase the aphorism beginning “When a man is in despair” and identify the cause and effect it
contains.
5. Paraphrase the aphorism beginning “In time of need” and explain how it applies to the prisoner.
6. Which of the aphorism in section 1 seem to guide the good-natured vizier’s behavior? Explain
7. What decision does the king make regarding the desperate prisoner?
8. Identify three aphorisms on page 107.
9. What lesson does the vizier attempt to teach the king (108)?
10. Identify aphorisms that express the main ethical lesson the vizier wants to teach.
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Gulistan
From the Gulistan
11. Break down the last sentence of Poem 6 to determine the order of events within the sentence.
12. What modern aphorism might be a good substitute for the philosopher’s words in poem 7?
13. In story 6, what punishment is given to the vizier who displeases his king?
14. In the dialogue and closing verses of poem 35 explain the narrator’s misconception about why one brother
was not saved.
15. What is one aphorism that summarizes the main message (or moral) of this story?
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Gulistan
From Gulistan – Critical Reading
1. Which of the lessons from the Gulistan would you share with a friend? Why?
2. In story 1, what kinds of comments does the prisoner direct toward the king?
3. Why does the vizier lie on the prisoner’s behalf ?
4. In story 6, why does the economy of the kingdom fail?
5. What do the details of the fable reveal about the effectiveness of the king’s rule?
6. What do you think history will remember about this king? Explain.
7. To whom does the padshah, or king, turn for help in story 7?
8. In what way might this story be relevant to kings or rulers, even though none appear in it?
9. In what ways do you think the fables in “The Manner of Kings” might be relevant to leaders today?
10/10
Warm Up: Parts of Speech Review
Essential Question: How does poetry express a culture’s views on life?
Today’s Agenda:
◦ Middle Eastern Literature – Poetry
◦ Middle Eastern Non-Fiction – Common Core
Monday’s Agenda:
◦ Poetry Assessment
◦ Indian Literature
10/10 Warm Up – Pronouns
Fill in each blank with an appropriate pronoun
1.
________ is your favorite kind of ice cream?
2.
Are ________ the books you ordered?
3.
I got the directions from someone ________ lives nearby.
4.
Never make a promise ________ cannot keep.
5.
______ will pitch for the Bombers tonight?
6.
______ is another book by the same author?
7.
______ invited you to enter the essay contest?
8.
Is there anyone ____ can help you with your problems?
9.
Is there any way in _____ I can help you?
10. With ______ did you leave a message?
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NBQ7
Notebook Quiz 7
1. Define aphorism
2. Define Personification
3. Define Metaphor
4. When did the first translation of 1001 Arabian Nights appear?
5. What was the focus of Palestinian literature?
6. What are 4 things that most folklore contains?
7. What are the two steps of summarizing a story?
8. Where did jinnees live?
9. In The Fisherman and the Jinnee what was the first thing that the fisherman caught?
10. Who translated The Thousand and One Arabian Nights?
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English II
Rumi
Rumi - Poetry
Analogy
◦ An explanation of how tow things are similar. Analogies are usually extended comparisons that explain something
unfamiliar by showing how it is like something familiar.
◦ Metaphor – a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things without using the words like or as
◦ Direct Metaphor – connect the two terms directly
◦ This being human is a guest house
◦ Implied Metaphor – suggests the comparison
◦ Getting always more/marks on your preserving tablets
◦ Generalization
◦ A broad statement that applies to many situations and is supported by details or evidence
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Rumi
Rumi – Poetry – Elephant in the Dark
1. What is the mystery that the scene implies?
2. What might the elephant symbolize in the poem?
3. In the first 11 lines how have the people
experienced the elephant?
4. On the basis of the evidence so far, what
generalization might you make (Stanzas 1-5)
5. What analogy or comparison does the poet draw
between the situation and life?
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English II
Rumi
Rumi
Two Kinds of Intelligence
1. In the first 11 lines what descriptions does Rumi use to indicate acquired intelligence?
2. What generalization can you make about acquired intelligence?
3. What things might demonstrate the kind of intelligence that flows from the inside out?
The Guest House
1. There is a human tendency for people to confuse their emotions with personhood; some people think that
they are their emotions. What evidence from “The Guest House” refutes this idea?
2. What extended comparison does the poet develop in this analogy?
3. Why do you think that Rumi counsels acceptance of negative emotions?
4. What can people learn from unpleasant emotions?
5. What generalization sums up this poem’s message about life?
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Rumi
Rumi
Which is Worth More?
1. How might solitude and freedom be similar?
Critical Response
1. What two things does Rumi compare in the first two lines of “The Guest House”?
2. What do the visitors in lines 2-5 have in common?
3. In lines 6-12 of “The Guest House” what advice does Rumi give his readers?
What makes this advice unexpected?
4. How might you apply the message of the poem to everyday life?
5. In “Which is Worth More” what choice does Rumi identify in lines 1-3?
6. Why is solitude so valuable, according to Rumi?
7. In what ways are Rumi’s insights still relevant today?
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English II
Poetry
Assessment
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Middle Eastern Poetry Assessment
In what ways does The Rubaiyat qualify as didactic literature?
What behavior does Sa’di encourage in the four sections from “The Manners of Kings”?
Why might these behaviors be particularly important for kings?
State in your own words the most important lesson in “The Manners of Kings”
Which three metaphors represent life in poem VIII of The Rubaiyat?
Which use of metaphor do you think is most effective? Explain.
List two aphorism from each selection and explain the similarities and differences between each pair.
In what way does the use of personification in The Rubaiyat make the verse more appealing?
Why do you think didactic literature often uses personification?
In Section 7 of “The Manner of Kings” what actions suggested by the philosopher finally calm the distraught
slave?
Based on the selections what can you conclude about the relationship, centuries ago, between a good padshah and
his vizier?