Do Now | Four Corners
There is a direct quote from Part II in A Small Place in each corner of the room. As you enter the room, you will be designated a specific corner of the room. Consider the meaning of the quote on the paper, by responding directly on the paper.
Direct Quotes
Discussion | Symbolism After discussing our Four Corners response, let's reconsider the the quotes through a symbolic lens. Remember that a symbol is an object, person, or idea that is supposed to represent something else, something more, something meaningful to help us better understand the argument that is being presented through the text.
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal *You will have tomorrow to continue working on this cyberjournal, so do not rush through it today. In Part I, Kincaid discusses the idea of "ordinary" and how it propels people to leave their world behind to visit new, more exotic lands on holiday. What does it mean to be ordinary? To live an ordinary life? Why are some people compelled to leave the ordinary? In Part II, Kincaid outlines how the British taught Antiguans to be ordinary.
Direct Evidence: provide a piece of direct evidence from the novel to support your ideas in this week's cyberjournal Professional Publication
Exit Slip | How might the Mills Reef Club relate or connect to what you have learned with Molly in movement? Do Now | Goal Setting
Completed the first two boxes of your goal setting form:
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Writer's Conferences Exit Slip | Complete your goal setting form and turn in for review:
Do Now: Go Around
Analysis
La Beguine
Movement Share Share out ANY movement from today’s dance. Do Now = Professional Model
Go Around
Pata Pata
Movement Share Share out ANY movement from today’s dances Do Now = Go Around
Social Dance Is...
Continue Learning Bele Kawe
Movement Share Share out ANY movement from today’s dances Analysis
Do Now | Goal Setting
Completed the first two boxes of your goal setting form:
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Writer's Conferences Exit Slip | Complete your goal setting form and turn in for review:
Do Now | Turn and Talk
Every other person in the class will receive a rhetorical strategy we have discussed while reading Part I of A Small Place. Turn and talk to the person you. Recall the definition of the rhetorical strategy. Discuss one way Kincaid has used the rhetorical strategy thus far in the novel.
Rhetorical Strategies
Jeremiad Define the term Jeremiad in your own words based on the following definition: "A jeremiad is, by its most basic definition, a long literary work criticizing and lamenting the flaws of society. In A Small Place, Kincaid draws from the long history of the American jeremiad — so much so that Salman Rushdie described the novel as “a jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled.” The Jeremiad is a form which first originated among 17th century New England Puritans. The Puritans believed they had been called by God to flee a corrupt Anglo Church in England and to start their own “beacon on the hill” in the New World. According to historian David Howard Pitney, “the American jeremiad arose as a form of ritualistic complaint and self- reproach because of the apparent failure of Puritan society to fulfill its task of self-perfection and world redemption” (482). Jeremiads were named after the biblical prophet Jeremiah and were characterized by a “long list of perceived social ills, denounc[ing] people for their sins and misconduct, and warn[ings] of worse tribulations and divine punishments to come if they did not quickly repent and observe their social covenant” (482). The traditional jeremiad was composed of three parts: citing of God’s promise, lamenting the current moral decline of society, and prophesying the promise’s imminent fulfillment" (Great World Text). Analysis | David Walker's Appeal
Go Around
Share out ONE WORD that has stuck with you from Thursday’s conversation. Watching 10 x 2 Watch the following Professional Model: Ko Thi African Dance Company
Bele Kawe
Movement Share Share out ANY movement from today’s dances Do Now = Go Around
Circle up. Answer the following prompt… What do you know about Antigua, after reading Part 1? 3-2-1-BRIDGE
What is Antigua?
Antiguan Ancestors
African Diaspora [Stolen Legacies] Significant movement of African people outside of the African continent.
Homecoming: The Identity of an African American in Africa
3-2-1-BRIDGE
Guided Work TimeStep 1 | Writing Workshop Cyberjournal I Used to Think....Now I Think Add one last paragraph to your cyberjournal from yesterday. Consider the start of the novel compared to your original thoughts on tourism.
Step 2 | Reading Workshop
Silently read the rest of A Small Place, Part I (page 19). At the end of the reading process, complete a Reading Log entry. Then silently read your independent reading book. If you haven't found a book yet, check out the Étude Library website or ask your teacher for some recommendations. At the end of the reading process, complete a Reading Log entry. Independent reading and reading logs are mandatory this school year. You will receive a HoPs grade at the end of the semester. |
éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionA Small Place is an interdisciplinary course inspired by the controversial nonfiction novel, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, about Antigua—the lasting effects of British colonialism, criticism of the tourist industry and corruption of Antiguan government. Throughout this course, Étudians will research and analyze a wide variety of multimedia texts about Antigua, Sheboygan, and Native American history in Wisconsin; focused on the themes of tourist and native, colonialism and gentrification, and the cultural importance of movement.
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