November 22, 2013

Chapters 8-10

 

Please answer the following questions

1. What did Okonkwo do whenever he thought of his father’s weakness and failure?

2. What did Okonkwo tell himself about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

3. What did Obierika tell Okonkwo about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

4. Describe the meeting to determine Obierika’s daughter’s bride price.

5. The men began discussing rumors about white men. Who did the men think the white men were?

6. Describe the relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma.

November 21, 2013

Group One and two

Define each vocabulary words 

1.  feign

2.  rebuked

3.  stunted

4.  harbingers

5.  copiously

Group Three

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

 

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided

1.  Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles.

2.  And when he did this he saw that his father was pleased, and no longer rebuked him.

3.  They went back to their caves in a distant land, where they were guarded by a race of stunted men.

4.  They were the harbingers sent to survey the land.

5.  Okonkwo sat in his obi crunching happily with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, and drinking palm-wine
copiously....

November 20, 2013

Chapters 5-7

Group One and two

 

Define each vocabulary words.

 

fibrous

 

calabashes

frenzy

intoxicating

 

bouts

 

 

Group three

 

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year.

 

2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.

 

3. The drums rose to a frenzy.

4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm.

 

5. Within a short time the two bouts were over.

November 15, 2013

Chapter 5 -7.  Please answer the following question


1. What influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye?

2. How did Okonkwo feel about Ikemefuna’s influence on Nwoye?

3. How did the villagers feel about the coming of the locusts, and what did they do about it?

4. What did the village decide to do with Ikemefuna?

5. Who struck the last blow to Ikemefuna, and why?

November 14, 2013

Chapters 5-7  Please answer the following question


1. Describe the Feast of the New Yam.

2. Who was Okonkwo’s favorite child, and what did he often say about the child?

3. What unacceptable thing did Okonkso do just before the Feast of the New Yam?

4. Who was Chielo, and why was she important?

5. What sport did the villagers enjoy watching during their feasting?

November 13, 2013

Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues

Group One and Two

Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.

1. perpertual


2.  Capricious


3.  incipient


4.  brusqueness


5.  kindred


6.  benevolent


Group Three

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.


1.  His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little
children.

2. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear
of the forest, and of the forces of nature, red in tooth and claw.

3. Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great
anxiety for his incipient laziness.

4. But he was struck, as most people were, by Okonkwo’s brusqueness in dealing with less
successful men.

5. Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the
next ancestral feast.

6. But it was really not true that Okonkwo’s palm kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent
spirit.

November 8, 2013

Read Chapters 4-6, then do the following:

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the

previous year.

2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.

3. The drums rose to a frenzy.

4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its

intoxicating rhythm.

5. Within a short time the two bouts were over

November 6, 2013

November 1, 2013

After you read chapter 1 and 2 of Things Fall Apart. Please answer the following questions:

1. According to the first paragraph of Chapter 1, for what is Okonkwo famous?

2. According to the last paragraph of Chapter 1, for what else is Okonkwo known?

3. For what is Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, known?

4. Why does Okonkwo’s father go to the Oracle? What does the Oracle tell him?

5. The story tells us that Okonkwo “ruled his household with a heavy hand.”   What does this mean?