Argument

How do you create a strong argument?

character

1. What happened to Josiah and Sheku?


2.  What kind of drugs do the soliders take?



3. How did Ishmael change in chapter 13?

:) 4/21

List the types of African literature.

What is oral literature?


What examples of oral literature do you see in the novel?

Summarize

In one paragraph, summarize chapter 11.

first person

First person is from one character's point of view.  There is first person singular and first person plural.  First person singular includes works like "I" and "me" whereas first person plural contains words such as "us" and "them" as a group of people.

For example,

"I am hungry" is first person singular

"We went to the zoo" is first person plural.

Write an example of each.

4/4

Think back through the entire novel A Long Way Gone.  When do you remember music being a part of the story?  List them.

characterization

When you first meet someone and did not yet get to know them, what do you observe about them?  How do you get to know who someone is as a person?

voice

The author's voice is:

the individual writing style of an author.  This can include sentence structure (short or long?), the word choice or diction that a character chooses, or the way that an author allows the readers to get to know the characters. For example, Poe writes in a very DESCRIPTIVE voice:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edgar_allan_poe.html

How did your author write???

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edgar_allan_poe.html

4/8

what book will you be writing a book review on? What is the book about?  4-5 sentence summary

Proverbs

"Strive to be like the moon"

We discussed this proverb yesterday.  Do you believe this proverb?  That people should strive to be like the moon because everyone loves the moon? 

What is the lesson in this proverb?

4/6

In what ways is Ishmael like you???  In what way is he different?

Sierra Leone

What do you know about Sierra Leone?


What do you know about Africa?

Choose one

A.     What is childhood?  Use your own experiences to explain what childhood was like for you.  What does it mean to be a child, and when do you believe that someone becomes more of an adult than a child?  How do you believe that the meaning of childhood differs from one country to another (think about the information read today)?

B.       Good versus evil:  do you think that people are born a certain way?  Are we all born with the ability to be both, or are circumstance involved?  Do humans have the choice on whether they can be good or evil, or do outside factors play into this?  What makes someone go from good to evil or vice versa?  Give an example of a television or book character who has changed in that way.  What made them change?