Literary text

Things Fall Apart

Hard Copy handed out.

BOW: 

Nelson Mandela: Speeches

• 4 speeches. 

Youtube links: 

• • I Am Prepared to Die

  • Glory and Hope

  • Sport Can Change the World

  • Don't Call Me, I'll Call You

• Belgian Courtcase

  • The Guardian 1 

  • The Guardian 2 

BOW assignments

• Assignment 1: ARGUMENT

  • Read through the  Aristotelian, Rogerian, and Toulmenian argument structures

  • Pick one of Mandela's speeches.

    • Provide a short, bulletpointed SPACE

    • choose which argument style it most closely follows. (It will not match entirely)

    • handwrite an outline. You will use your chosen model as the main bulletpoints, and summaries or paraphrases from the text as supporting bulletpoints.

    • Provide a short (min 200 w) critique of Mandela's use of structure. 

    • turn in: a handwritten outline of one of the argument structures applied to one of Mandela's speeches with a short critique at the bottom.

  • if students have accommodations, please apply those.

• Assignment 2: APPEALS

  • Provide a short, bulletpointed SPACE

  • Pick another one of Mandela's speeches.

    • Print the speech out.

    • Choose three different colors of highlighters, one for each Appeal.

    • highlight in your chosen color every instance of that appeal (you may choose that any particular part of the text demonstrates more than one appeal)

  • Turn in a hard copy of the speech with highlighters and notes

    • if students have accommodations, please apply those.

• Assignment 3: DIDLS

  • Provide a short, bullet-pointed SPACE

  • Pick a third (unused) Mandela Speech

    • Copy and paste the speech into a doc.

      • divide the speech into 5 clear sections.

      • Working from top to bottom,  focus on analyzing D.I.D.L.S in order.

        • provide specific evidence from the text

        • explain why those pieces of evidence were chosen

        • you may compare the section to other sections (say that your chosen section might not have much imagery in it, but a previous one did)

        • remember that a lack of a particular choice is still a choice. Analyze why this particular section does not need/have that particular choice.

        • each choice should be analyzed in  200-400 words in paragraph form  

    • Turn in on managebac in a doc:  one speech, in five sections, with a paragraph of analysis provided for each.

      • if students have accommodations, please apply those.

Ugo Realfonzo: Newspaper Articles

• Articles: 

  • Belgium's failed, forgotten Caribbean colony 

  • Today in History: The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference that shaped European Colonialism 

  • Today in History: Strike of 1886 Ends, Belgium's First Major Worker Revolt 

  • Belgium to pay tribute to Congolese soldiers of 1914-1918 for the first time 

  • The Netherlands to return colonial collections to Sri Lanka and Indonesia 

  • Being black in Belgium: Over half  have experienced racism in last five years 

  • DR Congo Calls for Belgians to invest in former colony 

• login: teacher's gmail

El Anatsui: Images

• Articles: 

  • Personal website 

  • From trash to treasure: The extraordinary career of El Anatsui 

Class work

Historical Context and Exigence

• Belgium museum wrestles with colonial past, with 40,000 objects tainted with violence 

• Metis van Belgie 

Additional research and reading

• Marxist theory in Africa 

• How To Write About Africa 

Higher Level

• Hamlet Workbook  make a copy