Class: 10.14.2009 October 14, 2009
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Today’s Warm-up:
Mark Twain — Training
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
–Mark Twain
What education and professional training are you going to get in life to make yourself the very best “cauliflower” you can? If you don’t know about your future, what training has helped you already in your life?
Then we played a couple word games to get your minds working, making them sharp like a razor, to deal with our complicated idea coming up next.
How is Chinua Achebe’s “Civil Peace” more about the Nigerian social situation than about the character Jonathan Iwegbu? How does the author make Jonathan a symbol for normal average people that we can relate to? (hint: look at the way Jonathan works and speaks compared to the theives.)
In one paragraph of 5-10 sentences, answer the question. Support your position with quotes from the story that you or your group members wrote down (you can share ideas!). Your quotes will work like examples that “prove” your position.
If you didn’t finish the paragraph in class, then it is homework. Your only other homework is to study your vocabulary words and, if you have low scores, do the vocab sentences for VIV & TORT.
