Homework
English 9 - Bring your Romeo and Juliet book on Monday.
English 10 - Finish your quote collector. All three pages (Religion, Politics, Economics) are due Monday.
Classwork
English 9 - Students worked with play dough today to make figures that represented their topic of the Renaissance. Students then worked in a group to combine their play dough into one figure that represents the Renaissance. Students wrote an individual explanation of why their groups figure represents the Renaissance and then they worked as a group to write a paragraph to persuade others why theirs is the best representation of the Renaissance.
English 9 - Bring your Romeo and Juliet book on Monday.
English 10 - Finish your quote collector. All three pages (Religion, Politics, Economics) are due Monday.
Classwork
English 9 - Students worked with play dough today to make figures that represented their topic of the Renaissance. Students then worked in a group to combine their play dough into one figure that represents the Renaissance. Students wrote an individual explanation of why their groups figure represents the Renaissance and then they worked as a group to write a paragraph to persuade others why theirs is the best representation of the Renaissance.
English 10 - Today we worked on the rest of the quote collector. Students are using the novel Things Fall Apart as well as historical sources to find evidence for European motivation to colonize Africa, evidence of Europeans in Africa, and evidence that shows the outcome of European establishments in Africa. Both period 3 and 4 were provided passages they could use for their paragraph on Religion and they were provided guidance on where to find passages they could use for one of the other paragraphs - period 3 was guided to evidence for Politics and period 4 was guided to evidence for Economics.
Examples of evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Politics:
“unless you pay the fine immediately said the white man, we will take your leaders to Umuru before the big white man to be hanged,” (Achebe 196)
“We have a court of law, where we judge cases and administer justice just as it is done in my home country under a great Queen” (Achebe 194)
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Politics:
“He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business" (Lugard).
"It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses" (Rhodes).
"In these circumstances the essential duty of the Government towards the native population lies in the maintenance of effective and just government, the protection of the natives in person and property, and the provision of gradual means of developing a higher form of civilization" (Foreign Office).
Example of evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Economics:
“he had also built a trading store and for the first time, palm oil and kernel, became things of great price and much money flowed to Umuofia” (Achebe 143)
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Economics:
"We get hardly any price for our cattle... we find it difficult to make ends meet and wages are very low.... When we have plenty of grain the prices are very low, but the moment we are short of grain and we have to buy from Europeans at once the price is high.... As it is, if we do raise anything, it is never our own all, or most of it, goes back in taxation. We can never save any money. (De Cardi).
“He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business" (Lugard).
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories” (Rhodes)
Examples evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Religion:
“And even in the matter of religion was a growing feeling that there might be something in it after all, something vaguely akin to method in the overwhelming madness” (Achebe 138)
“All the gods you have named are not gods at all. They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children. . . . They are pieces of wood and stone,” (Achebe 146).
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Religion:
"In our religion we believe that when anybody dies the spirit remains and we often make offerings to the spirits to keep them good-tempered. But now the making of offerings is dying out rapidly, for every member of the family should be present, but the children are Christians and refuse to come, so the spirit-worship is dying out" (De Cardi).
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organized religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural" (Lugard).
Examples of evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Politics:
“unless you pay the fine immediately said the white man, we will take your leaders to Umuru before the big white man to be hanged,” (Achebe 196)
“We have a court of law, where we judge cases and administer justice just as it is done in my home country under a great Queen” (Achebe 194)
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Politics:
“He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business" (Lugard).
"It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses" (Rhodes).
"In these circumstances the essential duty of the Government towards the native population lies in the maintenance of effective and just government, the protection of the natives in person and property, and the provision of gradual means of developing a higher form of civilization" (Foreign Office).
Example of evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Economics:
“he had also built a trading store and for the first time, palm oil and kernel, became things of great price and much money flowed to Umuofia” (Achebe 143)
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Economics:
"We get hardly any price for our cattle... we find it difficult to make ends meet and wages are very low.... When we have plenty of grain the prices are very low, but the moment we are short of grain and we have to buy from Europeans at once the price is high.... As it is, if we do raise anything, it is never our own all, or most of it, goes back in taxation. We can never save any money. (De Cardi).
“He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business" (Lugard).
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories” (Rhodes)
Examples evidence from Things Fall Apart that could be used in the paragraph on Religion:
“And even in the matter of religion was a growing feeling that there might be something in it after all, something vaguely akin to method in the overwhelming madness” (Achebe 138)
“All the gods you have named are not gods at all. They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children. . . . They are pieces of wood and stone,” (Achebe 146).
Example of evidence from historical documents that could be used in the paragraph on Religion:
"In our religion we believe that when anybody dies the spirit remains and we often make offerings to the spirits to keep them good-tempered. But now the making of offerings is dying out rapidly, for every member of the family should be present, but the children are Christians and refuse to come, so the spirit-worship is dying out" (De Cardi).
"Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organized religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural" (Lugard).