Teraloyna

1. Check books.
2. Vocab challenge
3. Let's get to the reading:

Teraloyna:

• This is the story of the multiracial inhabitants of an island in the Indian Ocean confronting change when they come in contact with South African mainlanders.
  
• Is the narrator an insider or an outsider? And, an insider/outsider to what community?
• How would you describe the tone?
• Is the expression of the "us and them" dichotomy a dominant culture idea? Does a minority perpetuate the dichotomy as well? Or is this dichotomy based on an insider/outsider paradigm?
• What is Gordimer asserting about the ideas of a multiracial culture? In what ways is she playing with the utopian ideas often presented with a one race idea?
• What greater commentary is Gordimer making about humans? How does she make her ideas accessible?

Comrades Writing Con't

1. Check books
2. Review vocab
3. Get into groups according to essay topic.

• Read and comment on each essay. Find 3 things you love! Find 3 things the writer needs to work on.
• Pull together all your ideas and write an outline for the Super Essay! This should contain a well written thesis, two pieces of textual evidence, clear and concise analysis (ok to be in notes form) and a concluding idea. Really work on the concluding idea and take it to the big picture.
  

Comrades

1. Check books
2. Review vocab
3. Let's get writing

• You will be assigned 1 of 4 in-class writing topics. You will have 45 minutes to execute this essay. All essays must follow the SPA format, include textual evidence, and consist of one (maybe two, but one is surely fabulous enough) awesome, confident, well thought out paragraph.
• After the allotted time, you will break up into small groups. Each group will have one essay on each topic in the group. You will read each other's work and comment on strengths and weaknesses.
• After you have worked in small groups, we will come together as a large group and discuss.

Topics to write about:

1. What is the significance of the title?
2. What are the greatest differences that separate Hattie and the young men?
3. In what way is the woman, Hattie, conflicted? In other words, in what ways is Hattie struggling on the "woman versus self" level?
4. What is the point of view and what the effects of it? Keep in mind the narrator.

Re-reading Writing Part 2

You have finished your novel. You have experienced it as a different reader, a different self than the last time. Now it's time to reflect.

Here's the the overarching question: How do you as a reader bring a different self to a body of work at different times in your life?

Keeping that main question in mind, here are a new set of questions to guide your writing:
1. In what ways did the book remain the same?
2. In what ways did the book change?
3. What is the dominant impression you've taken away from the book this time? How does that impression compare to when you previously read the book?
4. What did you notice that you didn't notice before? Did you see something — a character, a conflict, a detail — that you previously missed?
5. Was the experience of reading the book different since you already knew the outcome? Could you more easily focus on the language? Was the process less stressful?

How are you going to answer these questions? Good question.

• Respond in no more than 1 page (this doesn't mean 1 line or 2 lines over; it means ONE PAGE!), 1.5 or double spacing, 12 point Times, 1" margins
  
• Your response should be clear, concise, well structure and move beyond simply answering the questions.
• Tell your reader a story about this experience.
  
• You can use "I".
• You can get as personal as you like, but think about how all of your answers work together; find the common thread, and use that to tie it all together.
• Think about your purpose. What's one point you want your reader to take away and focus all of your paragraphs to that one idea.
• You can do it!
  

My Father Leaves Home

1. Check books and vocab.

2. Ultimate Safari, again

• Now let's examine at the tone: look closely at the descriptions, and remember that diction creates tone.
• How is the title ironic?
• What effect does the lack of dialogue have on the story? How does this connect to Elie Weisel's Night?

3. My Father Leaves Home

• Kaffir
  
• Who are the narrators? Notice the two different narrators? Are they related? If so, how? Insiders? Outsiders?
• What is the significance of the title?
  
• During the 3rd person perspective narration, how is the language of difference expressed?
• In what ways does Gordimer parallel the idea of "leaving home" in both narrators?
  

Ultimate Safari

1. Check books. No vocab!!

2. Let's look at Mozambique. Where the heck is it?



And where is that park, Kruger National Park? Kruger Park: popular national reserve in Northeast SA that's a popular tourist attraction destination for rich foreigners that want the "ultimate safari" experience.

3. Now, some facts:

• The Renamo: a group that tried to overthrow the Marxist government (Marxism: basis and theory for communism; goals: classless society in which all people are equal but there is a leading elite but that elite got nothing for leading -- think more socialist than communist) in Mozambique. South Africa funded much of the Remano work.
• 1970s-1980s: South Africa funded and supported a lot of destabilization efforts in neighboring countries because whites had been thrown from power (except for SA).
• Estimated that the Renamo raids killed some 1 million people and forced the exodus of thousands of poor villagers

4. Some questions/things to ponder:

• Let's examine the diction of the narrator: look closely at the language used and tell me what you can discern about the narrator. Who is she? How do you know? Be careful not to jump to any conclusions.

Once Upon A Time

1. Check books and review vocab

2. What were you dreaming continued:

• Read the last section aloud. Significance of the title comes into focus. What does it mean? What does it signify?
• The final line: what lasting impression does it leave the reader with? What does it reveal about the woman?
• What themes are present in this story?
  

3. Once upon an in-class writing:

What I'm looking for

• A rough draft
• A clear and crisp thesis
• Cohesive and varied sentences
• A logical and organized structure that shows you are going somewhere with your ideas
  
• Evidence that comes in the form of direct citation OR paraphrase
• Remember: this is a short (much shorter) in-class response. Think of this as a mini-writing on the spectrum of the work you've produced this year. You can do it!
  

Looking back at the text, in what ways does Gordimer hint at the eventual outcome of the story? In other words, in what ways is the ending predictable?

What were you dreaming?

1. Check books and vocab.
2. What is a skollie?
3. During the first narrator's retelling, in what ways does Gordimer use sentence structure and diction to reveal the narrator's social and racial identity?
4. The narrator says, "And I'm careful what I say, I tell them about the blacks, how too many people spoil it for us, they robbing and killing, you can't blame white people," (214). Can we trust the narrator? Why or why not? Keep in mind the narrator's intention and needs.
5. Group Areas Act. Resettlement Act. Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons.
6. "Beside him, she's withdrawn as the other ... Become like her. Complicity is the only understanding" (220). What discover has the man made? How do we know? What does this reveal about the woman?