A Girl Named Disaster Blog # 5

Due Dates:

B4 - Wednesday, 12/15 (Before Class)

A1/A2 - Thursday, 12/16 (Before Class)

Please respond to the following in complete sentences.

Chapter 23 (158-164)

1.     What is a “calabash?”  What does she make them from and what does she use them for?

2.     How might Nhamo identify with the lone baboon?

3.     What advice does Crocodile Guts give her on making the boat?

Chapter 24 (165-171)

1.     Why does Nhamo lure the baboon off the small island?

2.     How does she accomplish this?

3.     Why do you think she gives him a name?

4.     What similarities do Rumy and Nhamo have?

Things Fall Apart Blog # 5

Due Dates: 
B4 - Wednesday, 12/15 (Before Class)
A1/A2 - Thursday, 12/16 (Before Class)


Read through page 154
Respond to the following prompts in complete sentences.  You must use quotes in your responses.

1.  Look at page 120, can the opening paragraph be viewed as a foreshadow of what will occur later in this chapter?

2.  Argue which one is more of an 'individual,' Obierka or Okonkwo.

3.   What event causes Okonkwo's exile?

4.  How can water be viewed symbolically in Chapter 14?

5.  How is one's "motherland" viewed in Chapter 14?  Why is it so important to the characters in the novel?

6.  Explain the generation gap one begins to see emerge in Chapter 15.

7.  Who were persuaded to join the missionaries?  What kind of people were they.  Ch. 16.

Homework Assignment

A Girl Named Disaster (Pg. 99-111)

 B4 - Due Thursday, 12/9

A1/A2 Due Friday, 12/10

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses should be between 2-4 sentences.  Please write this assignment out on paper and turn in during class.

1.     Describe specifically how Nhamo survives.  What does she eat?  What does she drink?  What does she use for shelter?

2.     Detail Nhamo’s dream.  What significance might it have?

3.     What are the njuza?

4.     Where was Nhamo on page 105?  Use your map as reference.

5.     Why is luck so important in this section?  Was it good or bad luck?

Things Fall Apart  Chapter 11

B4 - Due Thursday, 12/9

A1/A2 Due Friday, 12/10

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses should be between 4-6 sentences.

1. Analyze Ekwifi’s story.  How might it be symbolic?  Think of the colonial / native relationship.
2. Analyze Ezinma’s story.  How might it be symbolic?

Things Fall Apart Blog # 4

Due Dates: A Block Monday, 12/6
                   B Block Tuesday, 12/7


Please read Chapter 10 and respond to the prompts below.  Your responses must incorporate a quote and be between 3-5 sentences.


1.  Do you believe the author used this description of the trial to represent order and justice?  Or was it intended as a mockery of native customs?

2.  What similarities did you find between the justice system you are familiar with and the one depicted in the novel?


3.  We have frequently discussed how this text can be viewed as sexist.  What instance in Chapter 10 would prove as an argument to say that it is not?

A Girl Named Disaster Blog # 4

Due Dates:  A Block: Monday, 12/6
                    B Block: Tuesday, 12/7

Please read Pages 88-98 and respond to the following prompts in complete sentences.  You should write between 2-4 sentences for each response.  Any responses with incomplete sentences will automatically be counted as incorrect.

1.  Why had the Musengezi River become a "dangerous place to sail" (90)?

2.  What makes Nhamo almost physically ill, even though she realizes that the sickness was from "her spirit, not her body" (93)?

3.  Paraphrase the story Nhamo tells her mother about the creation of the hippo.

4.  Look at the map in the front of the book.  How did Nhamo get lost?  Keep in mind her ultimate destination being Zimbabwe?